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I'd love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I'd love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent.

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I try to keep my voice in writing, and I think that's why I get so many complaints about how I write.

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The achievement of happiness requires not the satisfaction of our needs but the examination and transformation of those needs.

Achievement, Examination, Happiness, Needs, Requires

I know how to give the meaning of a word but not how to give the intention of a word.

Giving, Intention, Know, Know How, Meaning, Word

Philosophy. . . is indeed outrageous, inherently so. It seeks to disquiet the foundations of our lives and to offer us in recompense nothing better than itself- and this on the basis of no expert knowledge, of nothing closed to the ordinary human being, once. . . [one] lets himself or herself be informed by the process and ambition of philosophy.

Ambition, Foundation, Inherently, Lives, Nothing, Philosophy

So far as photography satisfied a wish, it satisfied a wish not confined to painters, but a human wish, intensifying since the Reformation, to escape subjectivity and metaphysical isolation - a wish for power to reach this world, having for so long tried, at last hopelessly, to manifest fidelity to another. . . Photography overcame subjectivity in a way undreamed of by painting, one which does not so much defeat the act of painting as escape it altogether: by automatism, by removing the human agent from the act of reproduction.

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Under examination by the camera, a human body becomes for its inhabitant a field of betrayal more than a ground of communication, and the camera's further power is manifested as it documents the individual's self-conscious efforts to control the body each time it is conscious of the camera's attention to it.

Betrayal, Communication, Examination, Inhabitant, Manifested, Self
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