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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.

Susan Sontag

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
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
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
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
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
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
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.

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