Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
SUSAN SONTAGIf tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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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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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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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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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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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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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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