How boring just to be a body.
SUSAN SONTAGSocieties need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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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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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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Life is a movie; death is 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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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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