Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
SUSAN SONTAGTo take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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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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A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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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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To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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