I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
SUSAN SONTAGBooks are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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