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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

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
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
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
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Live Old Oneself Recognition
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
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
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
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
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
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
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

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