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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.

Susan Sontag

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Art Photography Touch
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
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
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
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
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Care Intelligence People
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
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
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
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

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