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Susan Sontag

Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
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
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
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
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
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
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
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
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Book End Photography

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