Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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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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’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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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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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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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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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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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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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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