I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
SUSAN SONTAGWherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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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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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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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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My library is an archive of longings.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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