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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

Susan Sontag

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
SUSAN SONTAG

Destroy History
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
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
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
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
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
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love 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
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
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
SUSAN SONTAG

Kill Scars Yourself
10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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Change Direction People
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner

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