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The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.

Susan Sontag

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
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Live Old Oneself Recognition
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
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
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
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
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
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
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
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

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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