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The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories
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For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.
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I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
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You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
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Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
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Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.
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The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
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All that makes a lunatic are very ordinary ideas of mankind shut up very tight inside a man's head.
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We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away.
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The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything.
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Everything is so superb and breathtaking. I am creeping forward on my belly like they do in war movies.
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It's impossible to get out of your own skin into somebody else's.... Somebody else's tragedy is not your own.
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And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery.
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Nudists are fond of saying that when you come right down to it everyone is alike, and, again, that when you come right down to it everyone is different.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks are born with their trauma. They've already passed it. They're aristocrats.
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Lately I've been struck with how I really love what you can't see in a photograph. An actual physical darkness. And it's very thrilling for me to see darkness again.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
Diane Arbus
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Born:
March 14, 1923
Died:
July 26, 1971
(aged 48)
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