Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAGI haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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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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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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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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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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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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How boring just to be a body.
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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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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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