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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

Susan Sontag

One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
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
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
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
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
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
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk

Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

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