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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

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
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Art Photography Touch
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
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
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
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
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
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
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
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

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

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