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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

Susan Sontag

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
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
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
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 possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Lust Photography Satisfaction
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
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
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
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
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
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
SUSAN SONTAG

Kindness Prayer
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World

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