Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
SUSAN SONTAGPhotographers are always imposing.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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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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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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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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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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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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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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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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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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