Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
SUSAN SONTAGLove dies because its birth was an error.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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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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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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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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How boring just to be a body.
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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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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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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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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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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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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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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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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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