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Photographers are always imposing.

Susan Sontag

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
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
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
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Art Photography Touch
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Care Intelligence People
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
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
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need

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