The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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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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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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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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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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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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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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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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