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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.

Susan Sontag

How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
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
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
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
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
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

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