It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
SUSAN SONTAGThere is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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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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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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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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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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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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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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