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

Susan Sontag

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
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
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
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
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 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
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
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
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
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
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
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe

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