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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

Susan Sontag

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Book End Photography
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Beautiful Deep Women
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Lust Photography Satisfaction
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex

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