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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

Susan Sontag

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
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
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Care Intelligence People
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
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
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
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
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
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

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