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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

Susan Sontag

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
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
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
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
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
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
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
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
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
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

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