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Love dies because its birth was an error.

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
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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Existence Science Space Time
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Live Old Oneself Recognition
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Lust Photography Satisfaction
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
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
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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Change Direction People
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
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

Love dies because its birth was an error.

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