What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
SUSAN SONTAGMost people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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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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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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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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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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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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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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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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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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