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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.

Susan Sontag

Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
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
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
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
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
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

In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.

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