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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.

Susan Sontag

Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
SUSAN SONTAG

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
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
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
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
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
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
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
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk

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