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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

No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
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
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
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
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
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
SUSAN SONTAG

Disease Fear Sexuality
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography

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