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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.

Susan Sontag

I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
SUSAN SONTAG

Courage Inspirational Yourself
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
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
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
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Death Painting Photography Reality
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
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.
SUSAN SONTAG

Book Education Goodness Heart World

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