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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

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.
SUSAN SONTAG

Book Education Goodness Heart World
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
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
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
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
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

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