I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
SUSAN SONTAGI’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
SUSAN SONTAGIt 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.
SUSAN SONTAGTo 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.
SUSAN SONTAGLiterature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
SUSAN SONTAGI haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
SUSAN SONTAGA writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
SUSAN SONTAGI don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
SUSAN SONTAGIntelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
SUSAN SONTAGThe only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
SUSAN SONTAGTravel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
SUSAN SONTAGThe camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
SUSAN SONTAGThe possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
SUSAN SONTAGOur appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
SUSAN SONTAGThe fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
SUSAN SONTAGA 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.
SUSAN SONTAGSocieties need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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