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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.

Susan Sontag

Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
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
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
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
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
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
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
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
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
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
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Art Photography Touch
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

Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.

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