Sanity is a cozy lie.
SUSAN SONTAGIn place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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My library is an archive of longings.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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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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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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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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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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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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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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