Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
SUSAN SONTAGLove dies because its birth was an error.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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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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10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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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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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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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