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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 the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
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
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Art Photography Touch
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
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
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Lust Photography Satisfaction
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner

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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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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