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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.

Susan Sontag

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
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
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
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
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
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
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women

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