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“E por fim descobria o significado de todas as pequenas pegadas em todas as praias desertas por onde alguma vez caminhara, e de todas as cargas secretas levadas por navios que jamais haviam navegado, de todos os rostos velados que o viram passar por ruas sinuosas de crepusculares cidades. E, como um grande caçador de outros tempos que tivesse viajado em terras distantes e agora visse o brilho das fogueiras da sua pátria, a sua solidão desvaneceu-se. Finalmente. (...) Vinha de tão longe...”

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“I don't like feeling sorry for myself. That's not who I am. And most of the time I don't feel that way. Instead, I am grateful for having at least found you. We could have flashed by one another like two pieces of cosmic dust. God or the universe or whatever one chooses to label the great systems of balance and order does not recognize Earth-time. To the universe, four days is no different than four billion light years. I try to keep that in mind. But, I am, after all, a man. And all the philosophic rationalizations I can conjure up do not keep me from wanting you, every day, every moment, the merciless wail of time, of time I can never spend with you, deep within my head. I love you, profoundly and completely. And I always will. The last cowboy, Robert”

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“..there's a creature inside of you that I'm not good enough to bring out, not strong enough to reach. I sometimes have the feeling you've been here a long time, more than one lifetime, and that you've dwelt in private places none of the rest of us has even dreamed about. You frighten me, even though you're gentle with me. If I didn't fight to control myself with you, I feel like I might lose my center and never get back.”

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“Ela notou que ele disse “fazer” fotos. — Você faz fotos, não tira? — Sim. Pelo menos, é assim que eu vejo. Essa é a diferença entre os fotógrafos de domingo e alguém que faz isso para viver. Quando terminar com aquela ponte, que vimos hoje, as fotos não ficarão exatamente como você espera. Eu as terei transformado em algo meu, com a escolha das lentes, ou o ângulo da câmera, ou a composição geral e, muito provavelmente, com uma combinação de tudo isso. — Eu não pego as coisas como me são dadas, simplesmente; tento transformá-las em algo que possa refletir minha consciência pessoal, meu espírito. Procuro encontrar poesia na imagem. A revista tem estilo próprio, suas exigências e eu nem sempre concordo com o gosto do editor; na verdade, na maior parte das vezes, discordo. Isso os incomoda, embora sejam eles que decidam o que é publicado ou cortado. Acho que conhecem seus leitores, mas eu gostaria que eles arriscassem, de vez em quando. Eu digo essas coisas a eles, mas isso incomoda. — Esse é o problema de ganhar a vida com alguma forma de arte. Você sempre está lidando com mercados e mercados — mercados em massa —, que são feitos para ser compatíveis com um gosto padrão. Aí é que estão os números. Essa é a realidade, acho. Mas, como falei, o trabalho pode se tornar bem restritivo. Eles me deixam ficar com as fotos que não utilizam. Então, tenho arquivos pessoais das coisas que gosto, pelo menos.”

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“As pessoas de Madison County não falavam assim, sobre aquelas coisas. Falavam sobre o tempo, sobre os produtos agrícolas, dos recém-nascidos e dos enterros, dos programas do Governo e das equipas desportivas. Não da arte e dos sonhos. Não das realidades que silenciavam a música, e encerravam os sonhos dentro de uma caixa.”

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“This is why I'm here on this planet, at this time, Francesca. Not to travel or make pictures, but to love you. I know that now. I have been falling from the rim of a great, high place, somewhere back in time, for many more years than I have lived in this life. And through all of those years, I have been falling toward you.”

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“It's clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a long time. Though neither of us was aware of the other before we met, there was a kind of mindless certainty bumming blithely along beneath our ignorance that ensured we would come together. Like two solitary birds flying the great prairies by celestial reckoning, all of these years and lifetimes we have been moving toward one another.”

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“When a woman makes the choice to marry, to have children; in one way her life begins but in another way it stops. You build a life of details. You become a mother, a wife and you stop and stay steady so that your children can move. And when they leave they take your life of details with them. And then you're expected move again only you don't remember what moves you because no-one has asked in so long. Not even yourself.”

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“Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the arts. The market kills more artistic people than anything else. It's a world of safety out there, for most people. They want safety, the magazines and manufacturers give them safety, give them homogeneity, give them the familiar and comfortable, don't challenge them.”

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“The curse of modern times is the preponderance of male hormones in places where they can do long-term damage. Even if were not talking about wars between nations or assaults on nature, there's still that aggressiveness that keeps us apart from each other and the problems we need to be working on.”

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