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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

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
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Lust Photography Satisfaction
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
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Change Ideas Photography Reality
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
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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Book Education Goodness Heart World
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
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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Book End Photography
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
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
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame 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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Book Dream Memories

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

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