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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.

Susan Sontag

Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
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
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
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Death Painting Photography Reality
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph

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