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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

Susan Sontag

All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
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
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
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
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
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
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
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
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
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading

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