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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

I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
SUSAN SONTAG

Courage Inspirational Yourself
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
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
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Change Ideas Photography Reality
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
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
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
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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Existence Science Space Time
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
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings

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