Shouting has never made me understand anything.
SUSAN SONTAGThe camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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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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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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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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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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