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My library is an archive of longings.

Susan Sontag

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Book Dream Memories
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Job Life Myself Poet Writing
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Beautiful Deep Women
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
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 painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
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 urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Care Intelligence People
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
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
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing

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