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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.

Susan Sontag

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
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
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
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
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
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Job Life Myself Poet Writing
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
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
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
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity

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