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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

Susan Sontag

Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
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
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
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 place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
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
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 exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
SUSAN SONTAG

Existence Science Space Time

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