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

Susan Sontag

All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
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
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
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
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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
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

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