I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
SUSAN SONTAGwhatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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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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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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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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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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How boring just to be a body.
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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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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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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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