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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.

Susan Sontag

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
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
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
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
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
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Beautiful Deep Women
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
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
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
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
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
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

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