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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.

Susan Sontag

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
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
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
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
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
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
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
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
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
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

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