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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Susan Sontag

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
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
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
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
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
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
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
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 camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature

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