Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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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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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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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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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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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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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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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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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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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