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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
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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Book Education Goodness Heart World
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
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
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
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
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
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
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
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
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
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Book Dream Memories
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

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

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