“A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.”
Source: The Ground Beneath Her Feet
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British Indian novelist and essayist 1947Related quotes

“To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.”
Pt. III : The Positive Aspect of Ambiguity, Ch. 3 : Freedom and Liberation]
Variant: To will freedom and to will to disclose being are one and the same choice
Source: The Ethics of Ambiguity
Context: To will freedom and to will to disclose being are one and the same choice; hence, freedom takes a positive and constructive step which causes being to pass to existence in a movement which is constantly surpassed.

Address to the League Lucknow session in 1937, following elections held under the Government of India Act, as quoted in Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Founder of Pakistan (1976) by Ziauddin Ahmad Suleri, p. 1

“If I’d just listened—just taken one second to listen—it wouldn’t have happened”
Source: City of Glass