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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.

Susan Sontag

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Existence Science Space Time
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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Change Direction People
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
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

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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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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