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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Susan Sontag

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
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
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
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real

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