The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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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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My library is an archive of longings.
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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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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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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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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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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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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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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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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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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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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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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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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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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