Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
SUSAN SONTAGTo 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.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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How boring just to be a body.
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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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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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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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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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