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Shouting has never made me understand anything.

Susan Sontag

No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
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
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
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
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
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
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
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
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy

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