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Susan Sontag

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
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
SUSAN SONTAG

Book Funny Science
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Existence Science Space Time
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Death Painting Photography Reality
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
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
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 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
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
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
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
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
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
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

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