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

Susan Sontag

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Art Photography Touch
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph 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
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
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
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
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
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

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