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

Susan Sontag

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
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
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
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
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
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
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
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
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
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
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
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
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
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
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
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself

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