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Susan Sontag

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
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
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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Book Education Goodness Heart World
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Live Old Oneself Recognition
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
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
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
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

How boring just to be a body.

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