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.
SUSAN SONTAGI 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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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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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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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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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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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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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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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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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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Art is a form of consciousness.
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