In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
SUSAN SONTAG
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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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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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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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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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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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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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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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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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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