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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.

Susan Sontag

Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
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
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
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
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
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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
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

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