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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.

Susan Sontag

How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
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
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
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
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
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
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
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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