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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.

Susan Sontag

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem 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
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
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
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

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