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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.

Susan Sontag

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
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
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
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
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
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
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
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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Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
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
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
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
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
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner

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