Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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 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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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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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 library is an archive of longings.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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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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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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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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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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