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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

Susan Sontag

Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
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
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Job Life Myself Poet Writing
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
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
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
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
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

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