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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Susan Sontag

I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
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
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational 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
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Job Life Myself Poet Writing
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
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
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need

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