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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

Susan Sontag

Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
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
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Change Ideas Photography Reality
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Existence Science Space Time
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
SUSAN SONTAG

Action Compassion Need

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