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| Berenice Abbott The Wing 1946 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Lewis Carroll Margaret Frances Langton Clarke 1864 albumen print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| William Eggleston Near Jackson, Mississippi ca. 1970 dye imbibition print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Arnold Newman Violins, Philadelphia 1941 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
Thirteen Aphorisms on the Nature of Evil
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The unconscious hand of Evil loves its own innocence.
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Evil lives for the existence of "the other"; for itself it prefers a familiar, common existence.
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Evil always owns its own orchard, and sits there gaily picking cherries.
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Evil loves the shape of the human hand, formed like its own; for that sublimely simple tool is capable of carrying out the most monstrously delicate atrocities.
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In antiquity, Time begot Chaos. But from Chaos, surely, there arose Evil: for in Chaos there is ambiguity – and Darkness and Night – the home of human regret.
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Temptation is made flesh by the love it borrows from the heart.
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The will must challenge temptation as memory challenges oblivion.
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The brave make a place at their table for Evil. For only first-hand knowledge of evil can transform meditation into action.
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Evil is always waiting for opportunity's welcome: thriving as it does on the dark of judgment's eclipse.
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Time must tolerate the shape of Evil as it tolerates all other miracles.
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Evil loves its house, which it shares with history, which is blind.
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One must never forget that history does not exist. Rather, only consciousness, which makes an imaginary house for time past.
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And consciousness is the only sword which makes Evil tremble.– Ellen Hinsey (The White Fire of Time, Wesleyan University Press, 2002)
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| Richard Nickel Untitled (Auditorium Building, Street Level) ca. 1953-55 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Eliot Porter Sycamore Tree, Michigan 1973 dye imbibition print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Art Shay Nelson Algren pauses after another White Sox loss 1950 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Arthur Siegel Italy 1953 C-print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Charles Soulier Paris Fire (The Grand Staircase Entrance) 1871 albumen print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Thomas Struth Study, Charité, Berlin 2015 inkjet print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| William Henry Fox Talbot Plaster Cast of Marble Bust of Patroclus in the British Museum 1843 salted paper print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Willard van Dyke Ventilators ca. 1933 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Willard van Dyke Ventilators ca. 1933 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Carleton Watkins San Francisco Bay (Fort Point) 1860s albumen print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Minor White Patched Window 1959 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |