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Photographers are always imposing.

Susan Sontag

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
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
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 only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
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
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
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women

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