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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.

Susan Sontag

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
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
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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Job Life Myself Poet Writing
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
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
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
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
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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Change Direction People
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
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

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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