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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.

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
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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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
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
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
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
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Art Photography Touch
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
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
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
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
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
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography

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