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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

Susan Sontag

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
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
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
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
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
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Art Photography Touch
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
SUSAN SONTAG

Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
SUSAN SONTAG

Artist Hands Writing

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

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