The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
SUSAN SONTAGMallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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 urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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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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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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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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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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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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