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Most of my reading is rereading.

—Susan Sontag

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Reading
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It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.

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HeartbreakLoveLove-Hurts
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The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more.

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HumourPhotographyPornography
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Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.

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PhilosophyWordsWorld
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To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That’s what...

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CultureLiterature
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Hastalıkta hayal gücü her şeydir. Ona gerektiği gibi başvurulduğunda iyileştirir, ama hayal gücü insanı öldürür de. Bedenin hayal gücüyde sıkıcıdır, hatta her şeyi oldukları haliyle kavrar. Rüyalar hayal gücünün şiiri, hastalık ve düzyazısıdır. Hiç durmadan...

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DiseaseHastalıkIllness
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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

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ArtArt-CriticismCriticism
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Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of...

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LanguageProse
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or by duplication

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DoublesProblems
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Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature...

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FreedomLiteratureReading
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If one could amputate part of one’s consciousness…

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Consciousness
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Recently, photography has become almost as widely practiced an amusement as sex and dancing – which means that, like every mass art form, photography is not practiced by most people as art. It is mainly...

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Photography
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The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

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IgnoranceKnowledgeTruth-Telling
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If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories.

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Literature
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Psychological theories of illness are a powerful means of placing the blame on the ill. Patients who are instructed that they have, unwittingly, caused their disease are also being made to feel that they have...

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IllnessSicknessVictim-Blaming
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To the militant, identity is everything.

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War
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Desire wills its perpetuation ad infinitum.

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DesireEternityInfinity
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All struggle, all resistance is — must be — concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there. If not now, then soon. Elsewhere as well as here.

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CommunityStruggleTrial
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Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.

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JournalismReadingSusan-Sontag
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.

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Solitude
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A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs—especially those of people, of distant landscapes and faraway cities, of the vanished past—are incitements to reverie....

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That’s the source of the meditation on death I’ve carried in my heart all my life.

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Death
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[O]ne person’s ‘barbarian’ is another person’s ‘just doing what everybody else is doing.

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BarbariansCivilizationCulture
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To travel is to shop.

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ShoppingTraveling
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Abuse of the military metaphor may be inevitable in a capitalist society, a society that increasingly restricts the scope and credibility of appeals to ethical principle, in which it is thought foolish not to subject...

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CapitalismWar
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Can I love someone…and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.

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InspirationalLifeLove
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I’m now writing out of rage — and I feel a kind of Nietzschean elation. It’s tonic. I roar with laughter. I want to denounce everybody, tell everybody off. I go to my typewriter as...

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Writing-Process
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The last achievement of the serious admirer is to stop immediately putting to work the energies aroused by, filling up the space opened by, what is admired. Thereby talented admirers give themselves permission to breathe,...

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AdmirationFreedomInfluence
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We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the call to greatness. We regard an interest in glory or perfection as a sign of mental unhealthiness, and have...

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AchievementAmbitionDemocracy
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The photographer is now charging real beasts, beleaguered and too rare to kill. Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had...

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EssaysPhilosophyPhotography
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.”[Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade), Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]

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AttentionObservationPerspicacity
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Every culture has its southerners — people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, drink, sing brawl, kill their unfaithful spouses; who have livelier gestures, more lustrous eyes, more colorful garments, more...

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ClichésCultureNorth
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Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as collective memory–part of the same family of spurious notions as collective guilt. But there is collective instruction….What is called collective memory is not a remembering but a...

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Collective-MemoryMemory
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The only interesting ideas are heresies

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ArtCulture
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There is nothing wrong with standing back and thinking. To paraphrase several sages: ‘Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

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ReflectionSufferingViolence
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All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless...

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PhotographyTime
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Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the...

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HistoryJewishMozart
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My library is an archive of longings.

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BooksLibraryLonging
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Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

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ArtNewsNovelty
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The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one–or both. Usually both.

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Writing
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With genius, as with beauty — all, well almost all, is forgiven.

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BeautyExemptionsForgiveness
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Rules of taste enforce structures of power.

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AestheticsFeminismSocial-Justice
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But the very question of whether photography is or is not an art is essentially a misleading one. Although photography generates works that can be called art –it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives...

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ArtObsoletePhotography
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If...

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ActionApathyCompassion
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To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed....

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CamerasPhotography
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The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.

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BraveryChangeResistance
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

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AttentionEagerness
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Time does not give one much leeway: it thrusts us forward from behind, blows us through the narrow tunnel of the present into the future. But space is broad, teeming with possibilities, positions, intersections, passages,...

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One-Way-StreetsSpaceTime
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If I thought that what I’m doing when I write is expressing myself, I’d junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that.

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Writing
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Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental...

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AddictionAestheticsConsumerism
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