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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

Susan Sontag

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
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
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
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
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
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
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Beautiful Deep Women

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