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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.

Susan Sontag

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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Live Old Oneself Recognition
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
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
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
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 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
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay

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