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Susan Sontag

I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
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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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
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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Death Painting Photography Reality
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
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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Art Photography Touch
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Comedy Feeling Tragedy
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
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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Care Intelligence People
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel

How boring just to be a body.

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