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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.

Susan Sontag

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
SUSAN SONTAG

Myself Solitude Wait
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
SUSAN SONTAG

Cameras Photography
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
SUSAN SONTAG

Blame Evil Identify Need
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
SUSAN SONTAG

Love Person Ruin Willing
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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Artist Hands Writing
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
SUSAN SONTAG

Job Life Myself Poet Writing
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
SUSAN SONTAG

Beautiful Deep Women
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
SUSAN SONTAG

Existence Science Space Time
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
SUSAN SONTAG

Book Funny Science
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.
SUSAN SONTAG

Death Painting Photography Reality
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
SUSAN SONTAG

Art Photography Touch
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAG

Book End Photography
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
SUSAN SONTAG

People Reality Women
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
SUSAN SONTAG

Anger Myself Understand

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