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.
SUSAN SONTAGA 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.
SUSAN SONTAGAll understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
SUSAN SONTAGMallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAGHow boring just to be a body.
SUSAN SONTAGSelf-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
SUSAN SONTAGSanity is a cozy lie.
SUSAN SONTAGReal art has the capacity to make us nervous.
SUSAN SONTAGArt is a form of consciousness.
SUSAN SONTAGAll my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
SUSAN SONTAGPhotographers are always imposing.
SUSAN SONTAGI don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
SUSAN SONTAGLiterature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
SUSAN SONTAGTime eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
SUSAN SONTAGTravel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
SUSAN SONTAGThe fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
SUSAN SONTAGA photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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