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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

Susan Sontag

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
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
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
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Change Ideas Photography Reality
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
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
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World

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