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.
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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How boring just to be a body.
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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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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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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 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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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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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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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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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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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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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