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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

Susan Sontag

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
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
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
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
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
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
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
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
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

Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

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