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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.

Susan Sontag

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

Myself Solitude Wait
My library is an archive of longings.
SUSAN SONTAG

Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
SUSAN SONTAG

Comedy Feeling Tragedy
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
SUSAN SONTAG

Art Need Place
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
SUSAN SONTAG

Kindness Prayer
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
SUSAN SONTAG

Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
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
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
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
SUSAN SONTAG

Ability Exercise Literature
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
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
SUSAN SONTAG

Audience Literature Writing
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
SUSAN SONTAG

Pain People
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
SUSAN SONTAG

Change Ideas Photography Reality
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.
SUSAN SONTAG

Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
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
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
SUSAN SONTAG

Artist Need Oneself

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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