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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

Susan Sontag

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
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
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
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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Care Intelligence People
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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Change Direction People
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
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

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