I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
SUSAN SONTAGPhotography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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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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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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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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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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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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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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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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