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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

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
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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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
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
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
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
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
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
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
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
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
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
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
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

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

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