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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.

Susan Sontag

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.
SUSAN SONTAG

Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
SUSAN SONTAG

Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
SUSAN SONTAG

Art Design Real
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
SUSAN SONTAG

Extinction Problem World
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
SUSAN SONTAG

Intelligent Life Talk
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
SUSAN SONTAG

Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
SUSAN SONTAG

Change Direction People
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
SUSAN SONTAG

Art Need Place
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
SUSAN SONTAG

Disease Fear Sexuality
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
SUSAN SONTAG

Live Old Oneself Recognition
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
SUSAN SONTAG

Ideas Poet Writing
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
SUSAN SONTAG

Artist Need Oneself
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
SUSAN SONTAG

Job Life Myself Poet Writing
Photographers are always imposing.
SUSAN SONTAG

Imposing One Liner Photographer
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
SUSAN SONTAG

Audience Literature Writing
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
SUSAN SONTAG

Encouragement Inspirational Life

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