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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Susan Sontag

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
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
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
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
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
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
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
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
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
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
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
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
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

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

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