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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

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Book End Photography
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
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
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
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
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
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph

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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