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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.

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
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
SUSAN SONTAG

Kill Scars Yourself
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Art Photography Touch
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
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
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.
SUSAN SONTAG

Book Education Goodness Heart 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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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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