Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAGIn place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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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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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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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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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 place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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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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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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