Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
SUSAN SONTAGFear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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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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It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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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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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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