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Giving Quotes by Susan Sontag
- Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin with, an art…
- Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads…
- Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.
- Everyone who lives in an industrialized society is obliged gradually to give up the past, but in certain countries, such as the United States and…
- As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they…
- Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!
- 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…
- Mad people = People who stand alone and burn. I'm attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same.
- 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…
More Giving Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service. — Richard Bach
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- Give yourself something to work toward - constantly. — Mary Kay Ash
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov
- For it is in giving that we receive. — Francis of Assisi