How boring just to be a body.
SUSAN SONTAGTo paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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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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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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It 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.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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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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