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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Book Dream Memories
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
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
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
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Book End Photography
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Change Ideas Photography Reality
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
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
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
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 want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
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
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex

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