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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.

Susan Sontag

Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
SUSAN SONTAG

Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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
My library is an archive of longings.
SUSAN SONTAG

Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
SUSAN SONTAG

Ability Exercise Literature
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAG

Book End Photography
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
SUSAN SONTAG

Care Intelligence People
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
SUSAN SONTAG

Artist Hands Writing
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
SUSAN SONTAG

People Reality Women
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
SUSAN SONTAG

Encouragement Inspirational Life
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
SUSAN SONTAG

Destroy History

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