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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.

Susan Sontag

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’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
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
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
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
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
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
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.

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