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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.

Susan Sontag

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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Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
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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Existence Science Space Time
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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Book Education Goodness Heart World
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
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
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Lust Photography Satisfaction
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Death Painting Photography Reality
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Care Intelligence People
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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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography

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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