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

Susan Sontag

Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
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
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
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
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
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
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
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
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

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