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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

Susan Sontag

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
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
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
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
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Live Old Oneself Recognition
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
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
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Book End Photography
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
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself

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