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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.

Susan Sontag

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
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
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
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
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
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 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
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
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
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

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