Photography intervenes in a very strange way. It makes the streets, gates, squares of the city into illustrations of a trashy novel, draws off the banal obviousness of this ancient architecture to inject it with the most pristine intensity.

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For each man there awaits a particular image capable of annihilating the entire universe.

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There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. Admirable gardens of absurd beliefs, forebodings, obsessions and frenzies. Unknown, ever-changing gods take shape there.

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Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

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Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized. Louis Aragon

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Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.

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The painting of tomorrow will use the photographic eye as it has used the human eye.

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There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

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Most people have never known solitude. But there are a few of the other kind who can go back to their rooms anywhere and close the door on the whole world, and feel that they need never emerge.

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We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

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