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The day is refracted, and the next and the one after that, all of them broken up into a hundred juggled segments, each brilliant and self-contained so that the hours are no longer linear but assorted like bright sweets in a jar.
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If we had not met, that day, I think I would have imagined you somehow.
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We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse; we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard.
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The days of our lives vanish utterly, more insubstantial than if they had been invented. Fiction can seem more enduring than reality.
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When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.
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March 17, 1933
(age 92)
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