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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
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
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
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Live Old Oneself Recognition
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Change Ideas Photography Reality
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
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
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself

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

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