The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
SUSAN SONTAG10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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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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10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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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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My library is an archive of longings.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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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 don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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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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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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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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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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