![Tom Waits Quotes: Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies.](https://www.quoteslyfe.com/images/collection3/quotations1119/Photos-are-profound-because-they-have-such-1119419.jpg)
Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies.
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