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“I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself.”

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Graciela Iturbide

Graciela Iturbide, born on May 16, 1942, is a renowned Mexican photographer known for her profound depictions of rural life in Mexico and her focus on social issues. more

“Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always angling for it. It is a fault, but a childlike and even (in an odd way) a humble fault. It shows that you are not yet completely contented with your own admiration. You value other people enough to want them to look at you. You are in fact still human.”

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Book:The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

“There is the artwork that you physically make but there's also the journey that happens on the inside.”

Happens Journey Artwork

Author:Leonardo Drew

“I am beyond logic and rationality.”

Logic Rationality

Author:Imelda Marcos

“'As you have made your bed, so you must lie on it'; which again is simply a lie. If I have made my bed uncomfortable, please God I will make it again.”

Ifs Made Lying Please Bed Uncomfortable

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.”

Guides Practicals Practical Experience

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“The Prisoner's Wife echoes Edwidge Danticat's Farming of the Bones in the urgency in which it reminds us of the possibility of love even amidst the ruins. This is a terrifying, heart-breaking and, ultimately, important book.”

Heart Important Book Wife Possibility Bones Ruins Prisoner Echoes Farming Urgency Heart Breaking

Author:Junot Diaz

“The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten.”

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Book:Cosmos

Source: Cosmos

“There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.”

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Book:Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

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