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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

Susan Sontag

One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
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
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
Books 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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Book Dream Memories
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
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
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
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
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
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People

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