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

Susan Sontag

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 possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Lust Photography Satisfaction
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Art Photography Touch
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
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
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
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
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Existence Science Space Time
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings

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