Love dies because its birth was an error.
SUSAN SONTAGIt is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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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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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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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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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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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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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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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 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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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