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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Susan Sontag

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
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
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
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
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
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
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
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
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

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