Shouting has never made me understand anything.
SUSAN SONTAGLove dies because its birth was an error.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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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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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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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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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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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.
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How boring just to be a body.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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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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