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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

Susan Sontag

I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
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
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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Book Education Goodness Heart World
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
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
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
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
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
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
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth

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