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Susan Sontag

To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
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
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
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
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women

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