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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.

Susan Sontag

One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
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
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
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
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
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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Book Education Goodness Heart World
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
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

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