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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
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
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
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
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
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
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Change Ideas Photography Reality
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing

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