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" It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. "
Susan Sontag
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" The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. "
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" Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. "
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" Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. "
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" I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up. "
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" My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything. "
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" The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. "
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" What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. "
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" The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. "
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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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" The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication. "
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" The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. "
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" Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it. "
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" For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. "
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