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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.

Susan Sontag

I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
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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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
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
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
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
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
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
SUSAN SONTAG

Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
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
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
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

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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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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