Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
SUSAN SONTAGLove dies because its birth was an error.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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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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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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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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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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