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“Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same?”

Quote by Elie Wiesel

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A renowned Jewish author and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Elie Wiesel is known for his profound literary achievements and for recording and spreading the history of the Holocaust as a survivor. His works deeply reveal the terror of the Nazi Holocaust and the universal nature of human suffering. more

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“Besides writing, I have been teaching myself to 'develop' my own photographic plates, and I haven't a stick of clothing or an exposed finger that isn't stained. I sit for hours in a dark-room feeling as if I were a very elderly Faust at some dreadful incantation, and come out of it, blinding at the light, like a Bastille prisoner. And yet I am not successful!”

Ifs Writing Has Beens Feelings Light Hours Dark My Own Rooms Successful Teaching Havens Sticks Fingers Prisoner Exposed Clothings Plates Elderly Dark Room Faust Bastille

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“But only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul to which I do not decline, and which does not decline me, but, native of the same celestial latitude, repeats in its own all my experience.”

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“Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.”

Said Prayer Mankind Stakes Inward Monk Defence Illumination Hermits Thoughts And Prayers

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“The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.”

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“So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.”

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Book:Self-Reliance and Other Essays

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“The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff; and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant.”

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Book:Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters

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“Relationship between human beings is based on the image-forming, defensive mechanism. In our relationships each of us builds an image about the other, and these two images have relationship, not the human beings themselves.”

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Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.”

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Book:Inferno, Alone, and Other Writings: In New Translations

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