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Susan Sontag

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
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
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
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Death Painting Photography Reality
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
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
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
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
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
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

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