All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
SUSAN SONTAGLiterature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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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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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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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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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.
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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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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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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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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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