The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
SUSAN SONTAGBooks are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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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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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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