My library is an archive of longings.
SUSAN SONTAGWherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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How boring just to be a body.
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