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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

Susan Sontag

My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
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
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
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
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
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
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
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
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time

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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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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