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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.

Susan Sontag

whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
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
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 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
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
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
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People

Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.

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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.

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