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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.

Susan Sontag

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
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
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
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
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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Book Education Goodness Heart World
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
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
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Lust Photography Satisfaction
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
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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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
SUSAN SONTAG

Attention Eagerness Vitality

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