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"To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to be compassionate. It can also corrupt them. Once one has seen such images, one has started down the road of seeing more - and more. Images transfix. Images anesthetize."
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"The real challenge of compassion, nonviolence and mindfulness is to love in adverse situation."
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"I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see what they could be to one another; to see how they felt for one another, how the heart of each to each was softened by the hard trials of their lives. I think the best side of such people is almost hidden from us. What the poor are to the poor is little known, excepting to themselves and God."
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"The difficulties of people should be our business."
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"So bring me this man, trembling and shivering from head to foot; let me fall into his arms or down at his knees; he will weep and we shall weep, he will be eloquent and I shall be comforted, and my heart shall melt into his, he will take my soul, and I his God.But what is this kindly old gentleman to me? And what am I to him? Just one more member of the race of unfortunates, one more shade to go with the many he has seen, one more figure to add to his total of executions."
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"To fight the poverty, we must feel the poverty."
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"When you have reached your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall. If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house."
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"Demonstrate love to the people first, and then teach them to observe biblical principles."
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"One cannot speak about love for God and neighbor without having a standard of communication, respect, honor, and without understanding how precious every human being is."
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"For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes."
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"Find out the needs of the people you are ministering to and help them overcome their fears."
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"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art."
Art
"If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories."
Learning
"It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades."
Health
"How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion!"
Philosophy
"But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else."
Sociology
"The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions."
Answers
"I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it."
Life
"The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is."
Truth
"Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt."
Character
"To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That's what lasts. That's what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better."
Art
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