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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.

Susan Sontag

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
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
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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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
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
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Existence Science Space Time
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place

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