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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.

Susan Sontag

Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Book End Photography
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
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
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
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
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
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World

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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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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