No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.

Ideas disturb the levelness of life

Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others.

Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.

By furnishing this already crowded world with a duplicate one of images, photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it really is.

Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.