Exposition
By: Nathalie Léger
3.93
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The Countess of Castiglione was considered the most beautiful woman in the world in the late-19th c…
Want to Read $ 9.99"On the winding path of femininity, the loose stone you stumble over is another woman..."-Nathalie Léger, Exposition
"On the winding path of femininity, the loose stone you stumble over is another woman..."-Nathalie Léger, Exposition
"...[Pierson] wrote in his treatise Photography, the History of Its Discovery : "Light is a paroxysmal instrument that never obeys the desires of the photographer in a complete way."-Nathalie Léger, Exposition
"...[Pierson] wrote in his treatise Photography, the History of Its Discovery : "Light is a paroxysmal instrument that never obeys the desires of the photographer in a complete way."-Nathalie Léger, Exposition
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"If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
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"To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch. Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to tou…"-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
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"Perhaps solitude is a practice as much as an instinct, its pleasures very much contextual. Sometimes being alone is terrible."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
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"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
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"As we think, we might remember that it matters not only with whom and what we choose to think; it also matters what spirit we choose to think with."-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
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16. Exposition
By: Nathalie Léger
3.93
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
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"Let's try again. Start over. It is so difficult to tell a story, to begin with a beginning, to finish with a beginning, to not get bogged down in details, in minor incidents, to skim over the events,…"-Nathalie Léger, Exposition
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