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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.

Susan Sontag

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
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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Lust Photography Satisfaction
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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Book Education Goodness Heart World
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
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
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
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
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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
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
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
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
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing

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