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 SONTAGBeing in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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How boring just to be a body.
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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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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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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.
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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 haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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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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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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