Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
SUSAN SONTAGI haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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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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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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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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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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