No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
SUSAN SONTAGIt 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.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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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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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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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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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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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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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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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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How boring just to be a body.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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