Love dies because its birth was an error.
SUSAN SONTAGIntelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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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.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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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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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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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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