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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.

Susan Sontag

Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
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
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
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
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
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
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand

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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