In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
SUSAN SONTAGToday everything exists to end in a photograph.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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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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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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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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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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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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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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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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