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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.

Susan Sontag

My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Beautiful Deep Women
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
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
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
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

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