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

Susan Sontag

All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
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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Beautiful Deep Women
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
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
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature 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
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
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
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
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
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner

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