Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
SUSAN SONTAGToday everything exists to end in a photograph.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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How boring just to be a body.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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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 truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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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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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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