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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

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
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
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
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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Book Dream Memories
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
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
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
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
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
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
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
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

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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