I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
SUSAN SONTAGIt 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.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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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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Photographers are always imposing.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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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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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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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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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 fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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