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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

My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
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
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Change Ideas Photography Reality
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
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
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
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
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner

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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