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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.

Susan Sontag

Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Death Painting Photography Reality
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
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
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
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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Book Education Goodness Heart World
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing

Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.

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