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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.

Susan Sontag

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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Live Old Oneself Recognition
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
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
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
SUSAN SONTAG

Artist Need Oneself
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
SUSAN SONTAG

Art Photograph Time
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
SUSAN SONTAG

Kill Scars Yourself
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
SUSAN SONTAG

Ideas Poet Writing
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
Photographers are always imposing.
SUSAN SONTAG

Imposing One Liner Photographer
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
SUSAN SONTAG

Funny Inspirational Travel
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
SUSAN SONTAG

Encouragement Inspirational Life
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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Care Intelligence People

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