The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
SUSAN SONTAGWhat is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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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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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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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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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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