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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

Susan Sontag

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art 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
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Existence Science Space Time
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
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
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
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
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
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
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain 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

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