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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

whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
SUSAN SONTAG

Kill Scars Yourself
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
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
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
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
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
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
SUSAN SONTAG

Job Life Myself Poet Writing
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
SUSAN SONTAG

Attention Eagerness Vitality
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
SUSAN SONTAG

Live Old Oneself Recognition
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Book Dream Memories
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
SUSAN SONTAG

Lust Photography Satisfaction
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography

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