It is not the position, but the disposition.
SUSAN SONTAGWherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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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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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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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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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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