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Susan Sontag

In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
SUSAN SONTAG

Job Life Myself Poet Writing
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
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
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
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Art is a form of consciousness.
SUSAN SONTAG

Art Consciousness One Liner
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
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
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
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
SUSAN SONTAG

Blame Evil Identify Need
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
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
SUSAN SONTAG

Courage Inspirational Yourself
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
SUSAN SONTAG

Acceptance Philosophy Understand World

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