No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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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’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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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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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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Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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