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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

Susan Sontag

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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
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
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
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
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
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
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Lust Photography Satisfaction
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
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
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Care Intelligence People
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need

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