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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

No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
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
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
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
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
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
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
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography

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