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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.

Susan Sontag

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
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
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
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Existence Science Space Time
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
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
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
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
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time

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