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All my life I've been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.

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Susan Sontag
Age: 71 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 16
Died: 2004
Died: December 28
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The two ideas are antithetical. Insofar as photography is (or should be) about the world, the photographer counts for little, but insofar as it is the instrument of intrepid, questioning subjectivity, the photographer is all.
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Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance to let anybody flunk the test.
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The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.
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Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.
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To photograph is to confer importance.
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In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political.
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Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself.
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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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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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I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virtue.
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Cinema is a kind of pan-art. It can use, incorporate, engulf virtually any other art: the novel, poetry, theater, painting, sculpture, dance, music, architecture. Unlike opera, which is a (virtually) frozen art form, the cinema is and has been a fruitfully conservative medium of ideas and styles of emotions.
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whatever doesn't kill you leaves scars.
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What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.
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Courage is morally neutral.
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You can always be quoted.
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Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.
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The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.
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Art is seduction, not rape.
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...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self (and others) are often ruthlessly sacrificed. The poet self is the real self, the other one is the carrier and when the poet self dies, the person dies.
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