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 SONTAGA 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.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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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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Photographers are always imposing.
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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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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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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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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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How boring just to be a body.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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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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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 fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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