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

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
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
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
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
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
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
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself

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