It is not the position, but the disposition.
SUSAN SONTAGAll understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Photographers are always imposing.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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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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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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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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My library is an archive of longings.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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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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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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How boring just to be a body.
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