The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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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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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Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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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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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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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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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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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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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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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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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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