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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.

Susan Sontag

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
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
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
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
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
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
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
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
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
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 only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History

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