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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.

Susan Sontag

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
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
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
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
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
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
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
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
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality

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