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

Susan Sontag

Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
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.
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Change Direction People
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
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 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
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
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
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

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

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