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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.

Susan Sontag

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
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Job Life Myself Poet Writing
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
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
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
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
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
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
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
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
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
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
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
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Death Painting Photography Reality
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
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
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
SUSAN SONTAG

Kill Scars Yourself

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