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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.

Susan Sontag

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
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
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
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
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
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
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
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
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
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
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
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography

Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.

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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.

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