I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
SUSAN SONTAGPhotography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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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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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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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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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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