No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
SUSAN SONTAGNo ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
SUSAN SONTAGTravel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
SUSAN SONTAGTo take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
SUSAN SONTAGLiterature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
SUSAN SONTAGIn place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
SUSAN SONTAGIt 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.
SUSAN SONTAGTo be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
SUSAN SONTAGIt is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
SUSAN SONTAGIn the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
SUSAN SONTAGFear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
SUSAN SONTAGI envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
SUSAN SONTAGLove dies because its birth was an error.
SUSAN SONTAGSanity is a cozy lie.
SUSAN SONTAGThe painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
SUSAN SONTAGBooks are funny little portable pieces of thought.
SUSAN SONTAGTo photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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