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Susan Sontag

Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Book Dream Memories
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
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
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
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
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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Live Old Oneself Recognition
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

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