Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
SUSAN SONTAGThere is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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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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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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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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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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