In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
SUSAN SONTAGI don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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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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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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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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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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