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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.

Susan Sontag

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
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
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
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
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Care Intelligence People
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
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
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World

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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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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