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.
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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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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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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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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The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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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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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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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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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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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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