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.
SUSAN SONTAGA 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.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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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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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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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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My library is an archive of longings.
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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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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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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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