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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.

Susan Sontag

Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
SUSAN SONTAG

Mad People Potential
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Death Painting Photography Reality
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
SUSAN SONTAG

Book Dream Memories
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
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
SUSAN SONTAG

Artist Need Oneself
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
SUSAN SONTAG

Audience Literature Writing
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
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
SUSAN SONTAG

Blame Evil Identify Need
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
SUSAN SONTAG

Funny Inspirational Travel
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
SUSAN SONTAG

Courage Inspirational Yourself
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography

In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.

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