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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.

Susan Sontag

Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
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
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
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
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Beautiful Deep Women
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
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
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature

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