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.
SUSAN SONTAGNo ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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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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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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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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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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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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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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