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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.

Susan Sontag

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
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
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
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
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
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
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
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
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
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
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
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
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential

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