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

Susan Sontag

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
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
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
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
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
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Care Intelligence People
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
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
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
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

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