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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Susan Sontag

Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Art Photography Touch
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
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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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
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
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
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
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 my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
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
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself

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