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Susan Sontag

How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
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
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
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
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
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
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
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
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Book End Photography
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
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time

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