Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
SUSAN SONTAGIf tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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