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Susan Sontag

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
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
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
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
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
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
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
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
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
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science

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