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.
SUSAN SONTAGKindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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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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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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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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How boring just to be a body.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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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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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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