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10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.

Susan Sontag

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
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
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
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
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
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography

10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.

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10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.

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