The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
SUSAN SONTAGOne can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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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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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.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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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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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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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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