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Susan Sontag

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
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
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
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
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Existence Science Space Time
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
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
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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 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
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait

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