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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

Susan Sontag

In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
SUSAN SONTAG

Job Life Myself Poet Writing
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
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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Book Education Goodness Heart World
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
SUSAN SONTAG

Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
SUSAN SONTAG

Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
SUSAN SONTAG

Lust Photography Satisfaction
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
SUSAN SONTAG

Audience Literature Writing
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
SUSAN SONTAG

Live Old Oneself Recognition

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