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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

Susan Sontag

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
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
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
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
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
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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