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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

To 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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Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Book End Photography
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
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
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring 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
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
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
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Job Life Myself Poet Writing
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner

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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