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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.

Susan Sontag

All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Art Photography Touch
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
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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Book Dream Memories
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Job Life Myself Poet Writing
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing

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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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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