I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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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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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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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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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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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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