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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.

Susan Sontag

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
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
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
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 camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
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
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
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

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