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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Susan Sontag

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Live Old Oneself Recognition
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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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
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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Art Photography Touch
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Art Need Place
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
SUSAN SONTAG

Lying Philosophy Truth
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
SUSAN SONTAG

Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
SUSAN SONTAG

Change Direction People
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
SUSAN SONTAG

Anger Myself Understand
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
SUSAN SONTAG

Blame Evil Identify Need
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
SUSAN SONTAG

Sage Thinking Time
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
SUSAN SONTAG

Frame Photography
Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Mad People Potential
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
SUSAN SONTAG

Kill Scars Yourself
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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People Reality Women
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
SUSAN SONTAG

Disease Fear Sexuality
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
SUSAN SONTAG

Ability Exercise Literature
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
SUSAN SONTAG

Pain Photography
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
SUSAN SONTAG

Artist Hands Writing

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