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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.

Susan Sontag

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
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
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
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Job Life Myself Poet Writing
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
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

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