"Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire"

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I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy – ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of that joy. ... I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined.

— Bertrand Russell