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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Susan Sontag

Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
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
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Care Intelligence 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
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
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
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
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Live Old Oneself Recognition
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need

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