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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

All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
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
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
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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Lust Photography Satisfaction
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
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
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
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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

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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