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Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.

Susan Sontag

All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
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 camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
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
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
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
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

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