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.
SUSAN SONTAGReal art has the capacity to make us nervous.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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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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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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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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How boring just to be a body.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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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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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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