In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
SUSAN SONTAGThe problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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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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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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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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Photographers are always imposing.
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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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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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