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"I never know in advance what I will photograph,...I Go Out into the World and Hope I Will come across something that Imperatively interests me. I Am Addicted to the Found object. I have No doubt that I Will Continue to make Photographs till my last Breath."
"Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape."
"Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh."
"The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest."
"Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made."
"If we are meant to "love thy neighbor as theyself," then surely we should love the world's children as our own."
"The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing."
"He wants to live on through something - and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. All of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world."
"I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved."
"My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us."
"In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non-violence."
"We treat this world of ours as though we have a spare in the trunk."
"The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger."
"Stop using sentences in your material world that reflect what it is you do not want to be."
"In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever."
"Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world"
"The first step before anybody else in the world believes it, is that you believe it."
"When you create art, the world has to wait."
"In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world."
"Intellectualism' is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents; but has no power of re-determining its character, for that is already given."
