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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.

Susan Sontag

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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Change Direction People
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
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
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Change Ideas Photography Reality
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
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
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
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

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