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My library is an archive of longings.

Susan Sontag

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
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
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
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
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
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 camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
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

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