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Susan Sontag

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
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
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
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
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
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
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
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality

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