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Susan Sontag

Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
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
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Lust Photography Satisfaction
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Change Ideas Photography Reality
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
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Care Intelligence People

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