Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
SUSAN SONTAGIt is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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