Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAGI don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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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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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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