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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.

Susan Sontag

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
10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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Change Direction People
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 not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
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
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
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
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Job Life Myself Poet Writing
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
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

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