Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
SUSAN SONTAGThe camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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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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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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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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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.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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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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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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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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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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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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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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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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Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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