The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
SUSAN SONTAGAll my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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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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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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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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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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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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