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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
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
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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Change Direction People
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
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
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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Book Education Goodness Heart World
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
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
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Art Photography Touch
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
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality

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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