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Susan Sontag

In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Job Life Myself Poet Writing
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Death Painting Photography Reality
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Book End Photography
To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Art Photography Touch
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
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
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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Change Direction People
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
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

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