Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
SUSAN SONTAGTo photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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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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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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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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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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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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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