Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
SUSAN SONTAGToday everything exists to end in a photograph.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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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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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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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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How boring just to be a body.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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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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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.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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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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