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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 Sontag

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
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
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Job Life Myself Poet Writing
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
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
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
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
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
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
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
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
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself

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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