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My library is an archive of longings.

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
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
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
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Book Dream Memories
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Live Old Oneself Recognition
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing

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