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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

Susan Sontag

Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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
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
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
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
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
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
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain 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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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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