Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
SUSAN SONTAGThe only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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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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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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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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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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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’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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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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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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