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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.

Susan Sontag

All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
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
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking 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
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
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
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
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
It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
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
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
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 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

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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