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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.

Susan Sontag

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
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
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
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
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
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
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
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History

I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.

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