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Susan Sontag

One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
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
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
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
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
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
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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