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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

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
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
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
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
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
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
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
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
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
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings

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