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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.

Susan Sontag

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
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
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
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
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
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
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
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 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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