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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.

Susan Sontag

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
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
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
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Beautiful Deep Women
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
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
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Lust Photography Satisfaction
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling

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