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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Susan Sontag

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
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
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
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
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
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
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
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
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
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
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

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