to take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it… - Susan Sontag

Etymologically, 'patient' means sufferer.

For boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

I don't intend to let my intellect dominate me, and the last thing I want to do is worship knowledge or people who have knowledge! I don't give a damn for anyone's aggregation of facts, except that it be a reflection [of] basic sensitivity which I do demand... I intend to do everything... to have one way of evaluating experience — does it cause me pleasure or pain and I shall be very cautious about rejecting the painful — I shall anticipate pleasure everything and find it, too, for it is everywhere! I shall involve myself wholly... everything matters! The only thing I resign is the power to resign, to retreat: the acceptance of sameness and the intellect. I am alive... I am beautiful... what else is there?