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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.

Susan Sontag

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
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
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
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
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
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
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
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women

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