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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

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
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
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
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
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
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
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real

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