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Love dies because its birth was an error.

Susan Sontag

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
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
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
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
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.
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Book Education Goodness Heart World
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
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.
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Death Painting Photography Reality
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph

Love dies because its birth was an error.

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