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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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"Compassion brings us closer to each other."
"Be humble to those who praise you, pleasant to those who honor you, kind to those who cherish you, good to those who love you, and generous to those who adore you."
"To commune with God is to understand love because God is love."
"Jesus was never indifferent to the issues of the people in His day."
"It is better to do little things with love than big things without love."
"Pick up a bee from kindness, and learn the limitations of kindness."
"When we harm others we harm ourselves, when we help others we help ourselves."
"Jesus Christ is the Father of Fatherless."
"One of the greatest things you can learn in life is to be compassionate, and true compassion includes compassion for yourself."
"Nothing on earth is as unbearable as dealing with other people if you are a person who lacks compassion and understanding."
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"This philistinism of interpretation is more rife in literature than in any other art. For decades now, literary critics have understood it to be their task to translate the elements of the poem or play or novel or story into something else. Sometimes a writer will be so uneasy before the naked power of his art that he will install within the work itself - albeit with a little shyness, a touch of the good taste of irony - the clear and explicit interpretation of it. Thomas Mann is an example of such an overcooperative author. In the case of more stubborn authors, the critic is only too happy to perform the job."
"Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois."
"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."
"Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer."
"A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning."
"It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones."
"Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims."
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