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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.

Susan Sontag

whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational 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
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
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
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
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
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
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Change Ideas Photography Reality
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life

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