Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAGI don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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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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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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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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A 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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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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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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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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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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