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

Susan Sontag

Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
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
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
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
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
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
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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Change Direction People
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Book Dream Memories

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