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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.

Susan Sontag

My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
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
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
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
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait

In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.

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