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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

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
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
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
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
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain 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
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
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation

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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