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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 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
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Change Ideas Photography Reality
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
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
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
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
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
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
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
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
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
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
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
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
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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Change Direction People

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