All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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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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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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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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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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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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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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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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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