I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
SUSAN SONTAGArt is a form of consciousness.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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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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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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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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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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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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