The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
SUSAN SONTAGSelf-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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How boring just to be a body.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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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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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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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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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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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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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