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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.

Susan Sontag

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
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
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
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
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
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
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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Book Education Goodness Heart World
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
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

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