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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.

Susan Sontag

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
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
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
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
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
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
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
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
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
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
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality

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