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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

Susan Sontag

Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
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
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
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
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing

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