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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

Susan Sontag

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
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
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
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
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
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
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
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
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

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