To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
SUSAN SONTAGFear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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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.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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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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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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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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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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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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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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My library is an archive of longings.
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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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