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Susan Sontag

There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
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
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
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
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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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
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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Live Old Oneself Recognition
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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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
Art is a form of consciousness.
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Art Consciousness One Liner

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