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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

Susan Sontag

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Change Ideas Photography Reality
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
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Live Old Oneself Recognition
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Book End Photography
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
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
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
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
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk

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