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

Susan Sontag

Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
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
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
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
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
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
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
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth

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