My library is an archive of longings.
SUSAN SONTAGI envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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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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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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How boring just to be a body.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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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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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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