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Susan Sontag

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
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
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
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
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
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
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
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner

How boring just to be a body.

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