Sanity is a cozy lie.
SUSAN SONTAGWherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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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 envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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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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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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