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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

Susan Sontag

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
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
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
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
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
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
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk

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