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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.

Susan Sontag

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’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
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
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Care Intelligence People
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
SUSAN SONTAG

Disease Fear Sexuality
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
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
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
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
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
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

I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.

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