Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

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I have no friends, there are only people I love.

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Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized. Louis Aragon

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

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The painting of tomorrow will use the photographic eye as it has used the human eye.

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Language was not given to man: he seized it.

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Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.

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We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

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Photography intervenes in a very strange way. It makes the streets, gates, squares of the city into illustrations of a trashy novel, draws off the banal obviousness of this ancient architecture to inject it with the most pristine intensity.

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For each man there awaits a particular image capable of annihilating the entire universe.

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