I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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 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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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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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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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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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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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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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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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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Photographers are always imposing.
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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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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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