A 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.
SUSAN SONTAGShouting has never made me understand anything.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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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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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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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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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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