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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.

Susan Sontag

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
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
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
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
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
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
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
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
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
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
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
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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