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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.

Susan Sontag

To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
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
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
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
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
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 want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
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
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
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
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
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
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
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe

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