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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

I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
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
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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Change Direction People
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
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
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
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
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
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
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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

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