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

Susan Sontag

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
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
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
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
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
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
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
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
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Beautiful Deep Women
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste

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

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