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

Susan Sontag

Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
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
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Lust Photography Satisfaction
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
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
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
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
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk

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