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Susan Sontag

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
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
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
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
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
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
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
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
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Change Ideas Photography Reality
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing

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