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Love dies because its birth was an error.

Susan Sontag

Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
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
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Job Life Myself Poet Writing
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
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
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
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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Change Direction People
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
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
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy

Love dies because its birth was an error.

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