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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

Susan Sontag

To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
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
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
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Care Intelligence People
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Death Painting Photography Reality
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
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

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