Shouting has never made me understand anything.
SUSAN SONTAGPhotographers are always imposing.
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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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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 doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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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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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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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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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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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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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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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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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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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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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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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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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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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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