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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.

Susan Sontag

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
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
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
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
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
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
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking 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
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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Change Direction People
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World

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