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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More Susan Sontag Quotes
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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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.
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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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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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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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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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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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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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