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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.

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
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
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
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
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
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
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
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
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
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
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
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

One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.

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