Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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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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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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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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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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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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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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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