What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
SUSAN SONTAGFear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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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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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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