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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.

Susan Sontag

All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
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
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
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
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Change Ideas Photography Reality
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Job Life Myself Poet Writing
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
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
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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