The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
SUSAN SONTAG10 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.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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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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Art is a form of consciousness.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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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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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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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.
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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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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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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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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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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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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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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