Sanity is a cozy lie.
SUSAN SONTAGAll understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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How boring just to be a body.
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Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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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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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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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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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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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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