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Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.

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.
SUSAN SONTAG

Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
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
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
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
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
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History

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