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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

Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
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
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
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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Book Education Goodness Heart World
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 camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
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
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy

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