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Sanity is a cozy lie.

Susan Sontag

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Live Old Oneself Recognition
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
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
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
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
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe

Sanity is a cozy lie.

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