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.
SUSAN SONTAGOne doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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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.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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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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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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