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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

Susan Sontag

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
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
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
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
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
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
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
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
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
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
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Art Photography Touch
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Beautiful Deep Women
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
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
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
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
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
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World

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