Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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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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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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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 writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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