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

Susan Sontag

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
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
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
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
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
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
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
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
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
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
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
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
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
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
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
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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