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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.

Susan Sontag

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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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
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
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
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
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
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
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
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

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