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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

Susan Sontag

Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
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
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
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
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time

Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

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