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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.

Susan Sontag

How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
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
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
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Death Painting Photography Reality
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
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
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
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
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
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
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
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World

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