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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

Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
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
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Book Dream Memories
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
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
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 truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
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

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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