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Love dies because its birth was an error.

Susan Sontag

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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Care Intelligence People
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
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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Change Ideas Photography Reality
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
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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Death Painting Photography Reality
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing

Love dies because its birth was an error.

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