Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
SUSAN SONTAGBooks 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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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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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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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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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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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 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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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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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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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