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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

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
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
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
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
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
SUSAN SONTAG

Live Old Oneself Recognition
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
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

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