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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

Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner
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
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
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
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’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place

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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