Do you know that I can't remember her face? Try as I may, it will not be conjured. I can tell you what she looked like; I can recite a description of her features, part by part, but I cannot evoke the whole face.'' Don't you have a photograph?'' Photographs! ' He spat out the word. 'I'm talking about true recollection - seeing the face. Siri Hustvedt
When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.
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Aleksandar Hemon
A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.
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Amit Kalantri
Photographs are the reflection of untold stories, unseen beauties, unexpressed emotions, and the unheard songs of life.
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Debasish Mridha
It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a...
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Alan Moore
Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like scenes you can return to again and again and will always remember, no matter how much time goes by.
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Anonymous
More Quotes By Siri Hustvedt
There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.
Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.
We chart delusions through collective agreement.
I was happy without having sought happiness.
I had no friends. Was I happy? I was wildly happy. Sitting on my bed, which took up most of the space in that narrow room, I whispered prayers of thanks that I was really and truly here in New York, beginning another life. I...
