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If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

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So far as photography satisfied a wish, it satisfied a wish not confined to painters, but a human wish, intensifying since the Reformation, to escape subjectivity and metaphysical isolation - a wish for power to reach this world, having for so long tried, at last hopelessly, to manifest fidelity to another. . . Photography overcame subjectivity in a way undreamed of by painting, one which does not so much defeat the act of painting as escape it altogether: by automatism, by removing the human agent from the act of reproduction.

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The achievement of happiness requires not the satisfaction of our needs but the examination and transformation of those needs.

Achievement, Examination, Happiness, Needs, Requires

I know how to give the meaning of a word but not how to give the intention of a word.

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Philosophy. . . is indeed outrageous, inherently so. It seeks to disquiet the foundations of our lives and to offer us in recompense nothing better than itself- and this on the basis of no expert knowledge, of nothing closed to the ordinary human being, once. . . [one] lets himself or herself be informed by the process and ambition of philosophy.

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Under examination by the camera, a human body becomes for its inhabitant a field of betrayal more than a ground of communication, and the camera's further power is manifested as it documents the individual's self-conscious efforts to control the body each time it is conscious of the camera's attention to it.

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The development of fast film allowed the subjects of our photographs to be caught unawares, beyond our or their control. But they are nevertheless caught; the camera holds the last lanyard of control we would forgo.

Cameras, Control, Development, Forgo, Lasts
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