Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
SUSAN SONTAGThe possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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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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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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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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Art is a form of consciousness.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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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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