现代生活的最大悲剧是我们拥有我们想要的一切，但没有我们需要的东西。

——温铁军谈“农业现代化与小农经济的基础是根本矛盾的”

爱别人的，别人也必然爱他，利于别人的，别人也必然利于他，憎恶别人的，别人也必然憎恶他，残害别人的，别人也必然残害他。

The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.