Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAGWhat is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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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 camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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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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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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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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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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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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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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