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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

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
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
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
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
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
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
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Care Intelligence People
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
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
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People

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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