The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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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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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’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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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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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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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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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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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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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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