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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 problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
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
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
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
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
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
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
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
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People

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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