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Susan Sontag

Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Art Photography Touch
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
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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Death Painting Photography Reality
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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Beautiful Deep Women
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Attention Envy Feeling Pay People
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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Book Education Goodness Heart World

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