Photographers are always imposing.
SUSAN SONTAGSanity is a cozy lie.
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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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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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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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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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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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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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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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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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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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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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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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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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