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Shouting has never made me understand anything.

Susan Sontag

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
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
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
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
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
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
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
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
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

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