It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
SUSAN SONTAGLife is a movie; death is a photograph.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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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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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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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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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics 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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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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