AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

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Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every...

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every...

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also...

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also...

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various...

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various...

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to...

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to...

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to...

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to...

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to...

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to...

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by...

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by...

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

What we need is to use what we have.

What we need is to use what we have.

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a...

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a...

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

What we need is to use what we have.

What we need is to use what we have.

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian...

The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian...

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in...

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in...

Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular...

Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular...