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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

How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
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
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
SUSAN SONTAG

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
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
SUSAN SONTAG

Lust Photography Satisfaction
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.
SUSAN SONTAG

Death Painting Photography Reality
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
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
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science

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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