I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
SUSAN SONTAGThe truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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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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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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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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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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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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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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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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