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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.

Susan Sontag

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
SUSAN SONTAG

Extinction Problem World
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
SUSAN SONTAG

Myself Solitude Wait
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
SUSAN SONTAG

Audience Literature Writing
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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Beautiful Deep Women
My library is an archive of longings.
SUSAN SONTAG

Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
SUSAN SONTAG

Care Intelligence People
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
SUSAN SONTAG

People Reality Women
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.
SUSAN SONTAG

Death Painting Photography Reality
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
SUSAN SONTAG

Lust Photography Satisfaction
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
SUSAN SONTAG

Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
SUSAN SONTAG

Book Dream Memories
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Kindness Prayer
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAG

Existence Inspirational Photography
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
SUSAN SONTAG

Intelligent Life Talk
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
SUSAN SONTAG

Change Easy Endurance
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.
SUSAN SONTAG

Change Ideas Photography Reality
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
SUSAN SONTAG

Existence Science Space Time
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
SUSAN SONTAG

Artist Need Oneself
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
SUSAN SONTAG

Live Old Oneself Recognition
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
SUSAN SONTAG

Kill Scars Yourself
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
SUSAN SONTAG

Art Photography Touch
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
SUSAN SONTAG

Different People Safe

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