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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

Susan Sontag

Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
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
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
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
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
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
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
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
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph

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