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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
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
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
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
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
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
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
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Existence Science Space Time
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste

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