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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.

Susan Sontag

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
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
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
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 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
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Death Painting Photography Reality
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
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
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
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Job Life Myself Poet Writing
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
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

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