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Sanity is a cozy lie.

Susan Sontag

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
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
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
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
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
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography

Sanity is a cozy lie.

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