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It is not the position, but the disposition.

Susan Sontag

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
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
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
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
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
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
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
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
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation

It is not the position, but the disposition.

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