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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

Susan Sontag

10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
SUSAN SONTAG

Change Direction People
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
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
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
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
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’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
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
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
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Care Intelligence People
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography

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