How boring just to be a body.
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More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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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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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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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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Art is a form of consciousness.
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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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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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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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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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