I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
SUSAN SONTAGTo take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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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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10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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