Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
SUSAN SONTAGSanity is a cozy lie.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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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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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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Art is a form of consciousness.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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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.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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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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