The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
SUSAN SONTAGBeing in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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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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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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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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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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