Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
SUSAN SONTAGSanity is a cozy lie.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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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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Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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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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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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