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Susan Sontag

Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
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
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
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
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
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
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
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
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
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
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
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
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras 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
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need

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