The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
SUSAN SONTAGIt 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.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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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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To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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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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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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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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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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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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