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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.

Susan Sontag

I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
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
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
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
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
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
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 problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World

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