Sanity is a cozy lie.
SUSAN SONTAGI envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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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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To 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.
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My library is an archive of longings.
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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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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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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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