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Susan Sontag

I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Art Photography Touch
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
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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Book Dream Memories
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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Change Ideas Photography Reality
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
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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Book End Photography
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself

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