Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAGDo 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.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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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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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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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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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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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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