Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAG
The 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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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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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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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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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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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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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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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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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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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