No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
SUSAN SONTAGShouting has never made me understand anything.
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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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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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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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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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To 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.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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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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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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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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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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