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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.

Susan Sontag

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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Book Dream Memories
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
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
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
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
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner

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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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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