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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.

Susan Sontag

Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
SUSAN SONTAG

Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
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
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
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
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 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

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