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It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.

Susan Sontag

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
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
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
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame 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
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
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
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
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
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
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
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself

It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.

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It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.

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