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Susan Sontag

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

Artist Need Oneself
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
SUSAN SONTAG

Courage Inspirational Yourself
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
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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Book Dream Memories
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Care Intelligence People
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
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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Existence Science Space Time
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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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.
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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
My library is an archive of longings.
SUSAN SONTAG

Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Born Death Love One Liner
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth

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