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 SONTAGThe problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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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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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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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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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Instead 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.
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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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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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