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

Susan Sontag

All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
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
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
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
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
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
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World

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