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My library is an archive of longings.

Susan Sontag

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 only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
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
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
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
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
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
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
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

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