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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

Susan Sontag

All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Existence Science Space 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
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
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
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
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
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
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

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