What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
SUSAN SONTAGAll my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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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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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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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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