The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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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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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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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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My library is an archive of longings.
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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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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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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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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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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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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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