Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
SUSAN SONTAGPhotography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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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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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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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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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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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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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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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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