My library is an archive of longings.
SUSAN SONTAGTravel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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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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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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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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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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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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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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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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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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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