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Susan Sontag

Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
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
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Lust Photography Satisfaction
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Book End Photography
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth

How boring just to be a body.

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