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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.

Susan Sontag

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
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
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring 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
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science

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