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Susan Sontag

I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
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
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking 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
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
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Care Intelligence People
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
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance

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