It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
SUSAN SONTAGIn the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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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 fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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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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My library is an archive of longings.
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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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