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Art is a form of consciousness.

Susan Sontag

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
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
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
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
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking 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 haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
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
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Change Ideas Photography Reality
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
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
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 fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Live Old Oneself Recognition
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Lust Photography Satisfaction
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
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand

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