No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
SUSAN SONTAGMy library is an archive of longings.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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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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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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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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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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Photographers are always imposing.
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