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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.

Susan Sontag

All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain 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
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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Book Education Goodness Heart World
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
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
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
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
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
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

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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