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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

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
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love 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
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
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
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
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
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

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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