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Susan Sontag

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
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
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.
SUSAN SONTAG

Kill Scars Yourself
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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
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
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself

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