Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAGBeing in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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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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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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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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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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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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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 painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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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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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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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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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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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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It 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.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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