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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Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.
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In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.
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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
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