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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.

Susan Sontag

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 place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
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
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
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
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
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

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