My library is an archive of longings.
SUSAN SONTAGWhat is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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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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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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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 haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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