We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep. - Lydia Millet - Quotesmemo.com

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I always remember what Bob Dylan said in that [Martin] Scorsese documentary on him. When he was asked about Joan Baez's complaints about the way he treated her when they were together, Dylan laughed and said, "It's impossible to be in love and wise at the same time. "

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Lydia Millet

We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.

Empathy, Eye, Eyes, Needs, Weep

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It is not learning we need at all. Individuals need learning but the culture needs something else, the pulse of light on the sea, the warm urge of huddling together to keep out the cold. We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.

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The rooms of his apartment were full with the dog home again, convalescing. He was satisfied to know, even when she was out of sight, that somewhere in the apartment she was sleeping or eating or sitting watchfully. It was family, he guessed, more or less. Did most people want a house of living things at night, to know that in the dark around them other warm bodies slept? Such a house could even be the whole world.

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Suffering ignites the spark of contact with the sublime and offers proof of humanity.

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Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure.

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The word suffering is full and whole and perfect as a pierced heart, sweet, rushing and tender. . . Suffering is the joy of someone about to be martyred, illumination of something given up as an offer.

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