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.
SUSAN SONTAGInstead 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.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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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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Art is a form of consciousness.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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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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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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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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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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