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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

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
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
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
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
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
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
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe

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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