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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

Susan Sontag

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
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 urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
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
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
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
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

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