The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
SUSAN SONTAGThe fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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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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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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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.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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