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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

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
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
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
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
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
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
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
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste

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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