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Susan Sontag

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
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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Live Old Oneself Recognition
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Book End Photography
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
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
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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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
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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Beautiful Deep Women
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
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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Book Dream Memories
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science

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