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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.

Susan Sontag

One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Art Photography Touch
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
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
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
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
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
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People

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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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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