Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAGI want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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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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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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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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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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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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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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