Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
SUSAN SONTAGA good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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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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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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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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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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