"All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt."
― Susan Sontag
#photography
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„ News stories surround us daily, but the events of art reach us too late, travel languorously like messages in a bottle.“
- Michael Ondaatje
🖼️ Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
"Love has never been a popular movement, and no one’s ever wanted really to be free. The world is held together, really it is, held together, by the love and the passion of a very few people."
— James Baldwin
„Der Fluss ist überall zugleich, an der Quelle und an der Mündung, am Wasserfall, an der Fähre, im Strom, im Meer, überall zugleich, und für ihn gibt es nur Gegenwart, nicht den Schatten der Zukunft, nicht der Schatten der Vergangenheit.“
~ Hermann Hesse,Siddharta
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Live your questions now,
and perhaps even without
knowing it, you will live
along some distant day
into your answers.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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