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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.

Susan Sontag

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
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 truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
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
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
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
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
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
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
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

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