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Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

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Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
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Alone Art Escape Love Self Love Solitude
Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
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Change Hope Ideas Inspirational People
There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
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Education Feminism Ideas Movement Understand
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.
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Action Difficult Fall Love Responsiblity
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
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Creature Earth Fear Inspirational People Surround
The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
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Control Force Hurt Loss Love Outside Pain Practice Risk Safety
You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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Change Enormous Excess Live People Realize Simplicity Social
I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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Art Belief Elegance Environment Grace Live Reflection
I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Children Different Experience Life People
Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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Dominate Society Violence
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Country Institution Library Public
What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Deep Imagination Inspirational
Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it’s not unfamiliar to you. It’s always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
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Death Life Moments Reality Time
I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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Book Country Love Writing
I think the Women’s movement has had a major impact on everybody’s lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
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Impact Movement Nation Women Empowerment World

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

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