Shouting has never made me understand anything.
SUSAN SONTAGThe possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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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 camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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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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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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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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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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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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