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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

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

Change Easy Endurance
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Book End Photography
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
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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Book Education Goodness Heart World
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
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
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
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe

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

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