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

Susan Sontag

Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
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
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Existence Science Space Time
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
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
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
SUSAN SONTAG

Courage Inspirational Yourself

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

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