How boring just to be a body.
SUSAN SONTAGAll understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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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.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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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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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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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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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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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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