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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.

Susan Sontag

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
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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
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
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 don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing

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