I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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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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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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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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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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