"Pero podría ser, también, ya que nada se está quieto en el mundo en que vivimos, que ese fenómeno, la civilización del espectáculo, perezca sin pena ni gloria, por obra de su propia inanidad y nadería, y que otro lo reemplace, acaso mejor, acaso peor, en la sociedad del porvenir. Confieso que tengo poca curiosidad por el futuro, en el que, tal como van las cosas, tiendo a descreer."

"(...) Por isso, não faz mal que você não venha, esperarei quanto tempo for preciso."

"This friend of mine had a kid, and it was a home birth, so he was there helping out and everything. And he said at that profound moment of birth, he was watching this child, experiencing life for the first time, I mean, trying to take its first breath... all he could think about was that he was looking at something that was gonna die someday. He just couldn't get it out of his head. And I think that's so true, I mean, all - everything is so finite. But don't you think that that's what, makes our time, at specific moments, so important? "

"(...) I feel like this is, uh, some dream world we're in, you know.
(...) Yeah, it's so weird. It's like our time together is just ours. It's our own creation. It must be like I'm in your dream, and you in mine, or something."

"Ah, my friends from the prison, they ask unto me,
'How good, how good does it feel to be free?'
And I answer them most mysteriously,
'Are birds free from the chains of the skyway?"

"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen."

"our life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you."

como respirar ácido em pulmões chumbados.

de um amargo instinto que assola.

ninguém projeta uma vida assim, ninguém projeta incompreensão sucessiva e sensibilidade e sexualidade sufocadas.

preferem a projeção da confiança e da estabilidade,

e serei sucessivamente indiferente a esta projeção,

por ser sucessivamente fiel ao que há tempos me defini ser.

"A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see. Most people, really, don’t see—see only what they have always seen and what they expect to see—where a photographer, if he’s good, will see everything. And better if he sees things he doesn’t expect to see."

"Well, it’s sort of a vicarious experience when you photograph. Because you’re always on the outside. They’re having a good time there, maybe a family, or a couple families, having a picnic, eating this fried chicken and potato salad and all that junk. And you’re on the outside, you know, trying to sneak a picture. You walk around them and around them and look and look and see if for a moment something might happen, and they don’t invite you to sit down and have fried chicken. You’re always on the outside. And then you go somewhere else, but again you’re on the outside. And if you have somebody with you it’s no good, they detract you from what you’re doing. So you got to be alone and work alone. And it’s a lonely—a very lonely occupation, if you want to call it that."

"Há uma certa concordância de que a modernidade velha funcionou em oposição à sociedade, de modos descritos como negativo, crítico, contestador, subversivo, oposicionista etc. Por outro lado, os clássicos da modernidade anterior são agora parte do chamado cânon e são ensinados em escolas e universidades: o que, por sua vez, os esvazia de todo seu velho potencial subversivo.

Pode-se dizer algo no gênero sobre a pós-modernidade e a sua situação social? Nosso tempo é o do desaparecimento do sentido da história - o sistema social contemporâneo, pouco a pouco, perde sua capacidade de preservar o próprio passado e começa a viver num presente perpétuo, numa perpétua mudança que apaga as tradições que as formações sociais anteriores, de uma maneira ou de outra, tiveram de preservar.

Vimos que existe um modo pelo qual a pós-modernidade repercute e reproduz a lógica da sociedade de consumo. O importante é saber se existe uma forma de resistência a essa lógica. Tal questão, todavia, permanece em aberto."

not dead yet.

"And all these questions I ask myself. It is not in a spirit of curiosity. I cannot be silent. About myself I need know nothing. Here all is clear. No, all is not clear. But the discourse must go on. So one invents obscurities. Rhetoric."

vivendo e imerso no subterrâneo.

(cada vez mais improvável a volta para a superfície)

fotografia, e pouco além.

"Tenho vontade de vomitar, e de me vomitar a mim...

Tenho uma náusea que, se pudesse comer o universo para o despejar na pia, comia-o.

Com esforço, mas era para bom fim.

Ao menos era para um fim.

E assim como sou não tenho nem fim nem vida..."

"fig. Tudo que serve de ligação ou comunicação."

"And, another thing, I never go out with any intentions of photographing any particular thing. I let anything that comes within my sight or in my path that excites me to photograph, I’ll photograph, I don’t care what it is. But I never go out there and say, 'Well, I’m going to look for certain type of pictures today'—maybe, you know, 'It'll be great art, or I can sell them,' or something like that. Or with the intention of going out and trying to take pictures that might have a market. Never. I just go out and photograph and if something I see comes—that I can reach and I’m interested in—I will photograph. I don’t believe in intellectualizing and working in any particular method. Just photograph, period."

"I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps."

99% da vida sem história, sem passado.

resta apenas aquele 1% já quase completamente apagado da memória.

os outros têm, quase todos.

eu não.