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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

Susan Sontag

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
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
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
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
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Death Painting Photography Reality
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
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
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
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

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