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.
SUSAN SONTAGLife is a movie; death is a photograph.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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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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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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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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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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