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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. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#freezing #melt #moment #mortality #mutability

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#affront #anything #cannot #consolations #controlled

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear. ↗

— Sophocles

#does #fear #feels #frighten #man

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. ↗

— Sophocles

#fraud #honor #rather #succeed #than

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession. ↗

— Sophocles

#any #better #friend #how #kindness

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love. ↗

— Sophocles

#life #love #one word #pain #us

He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life. ↗

— Sophocles

#bad #friend #his #life #throws

If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free. ↗

— Sophocles

#enslaved #free #mind #still

Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession. ↗

— Sophocles

#better #fares #friend #how #kindness

We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#billion #convinced #culture #deny #faith