One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
SUSAN SONTAGI envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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How boring just to be a body.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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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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A 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.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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