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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.

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 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
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Live Old Oneself Recognition
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
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
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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Change Direction People
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
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

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