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Susan Sontag

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
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
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
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
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
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
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
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself

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