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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.

Susan Sontag

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
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
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
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
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
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
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
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
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature

Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.

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