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Sanity is a cozy lie.

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.
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Book End Photography
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
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
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Lust Photography Satisfaction
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
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Beautiful Deep Women

Sanity is a cozy lie.

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