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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

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

Book End Photography
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
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
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
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
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
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
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
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
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
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
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings

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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