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A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.

Susan Sontag

I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
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
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Job Life Myself Poet Writing
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Change Ideas Photography Reality
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

A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.

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