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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

All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Book End Photography
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Death Painting Photography Reality
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Lust Photography Satisfaction
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time

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