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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
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
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
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
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
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
SUSAN SONTAG

Courage Inspirational Yourself
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
SUSAN SONTAG

Attention Eagerness Vitality

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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