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Susan Sontag

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
SUSAN SONTAG

Live Old Oneself Recognition
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.
SUSAN SONTAG

Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
SUSAN SONTAG

Ability Exercise Literature
It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
SUSAN SONTAG

Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
SUSAN SONTAG

Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
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.
SUSAN SONTAG

Change Direction People
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
SUSAN SONTAG

Artist Need Oneself
Art is a form of consciousness.
SUSAN SONTAG

Art Consciousness One Liner
Sanity is a cozy lie.
SUSAN SONTAG

Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
SUSAN SONTAG

Artist Hands Writing
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
SUSAN SONTAG

People Transformation
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
SUSAN SONTAG

Anger Myself Understand

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