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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

Susan Sontag

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
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
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art 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
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Art Photography Touch
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature

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