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

Susan Sontag

My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
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
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
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
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity

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

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