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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.

Susan Sontag

In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
SUSAN SONTAG

Job Life Myself Poet Writing
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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Existence Science Space Time
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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Book End Photography
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Eagerness Vitality
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
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.
SUSAN SONTAG

Change Direction People
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.
SUSAN SONTAG

Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
SUSAN SONTAG

Book Dream Memories
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
SUSAN SONTAG

Destroy History
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
SUSAN SONTAG

Courage Inspirational Yourself
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World

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