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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

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
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
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
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
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
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
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
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
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
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature

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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