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Susan Sontag

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
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
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
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
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Book Dream Memories
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography

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