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Susan Sontag

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
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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Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
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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Art Photography Touch
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
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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Death Painting Photography Reality
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation

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