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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.

Susan Sontag

Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
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
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
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 photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Death Painting Photography Reality
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
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
SUSAN SONTAG

Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself

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