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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.

Susan Sontag

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Book End Photography
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph 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
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
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
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Lust Photography Satisfaction
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography

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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