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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.

Susan Sontag

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
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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Change Direction People
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Live Old Oneself Recognition
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
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
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
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
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
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
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
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
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World

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