No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
SUSAN SONTAGNo ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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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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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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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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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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