Claude Lanzmann quotes
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“Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that”
-- Claude LanzmannSource : "IFC Films to Re-Release Landmark Documentary Shoah" by Sophia Savage, www.indiewire.com. November 2, 2010.
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“I have always said that archival images are images without imagination. They petrify thought and kill any power of evocation.”
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“I think that no one human being would have been able to look at [a hypothetical photographic record of the Nazi gassing of Jews]... I would have preferred to destroy it. It is not visible.”
-- Claude Lanzmann
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“Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.”
Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.275, Simon and Schuster
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Source : "In Rare, Blunt Speech, Saudi King Criticizes Syria Vetoes" by Rick Gladstone, www.nytimes.com. February 10, 2012.
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“of rhythm is image / of image is knowing / of knowing there is / a construct”
Source : Charles Olson (1997). “Collected Prose”, p.124, Univ of California Press
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“I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things.”
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“The catastrophist constructs theories, the uniformitarian demolishes them.”
Source : William Whewell (1858). “Novum organon renovatum”, p.25
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