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 SONTAGHow boring just to be a body.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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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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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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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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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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My library is an archive of longings.
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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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