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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

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
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
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
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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Art Photography Touch
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
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
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography

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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