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

Susan Sontag

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
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
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
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
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Book Dream Memories
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
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
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Job Life Myself Poet Writing
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real

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