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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

There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
SUSAN SONTAG

Cameras Photography
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
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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Book Education Goodness Heart World
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
SUSAN SONTAG

Job Life Myself Poet Writing
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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