Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
SUSAN SONTAGHow boring just to be a body.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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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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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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To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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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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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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Art is a form of consciousness.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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