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Shouting has never made me understand anything.

Susan Sontag

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
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
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
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Lust Photography Satisfaction
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
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
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer

Shouting has never made me understand anything.

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