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.
SUSAN SONTAGBeing in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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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.
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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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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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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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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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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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