Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
SUSAN SONTAGNo ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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My library is an archive of longings.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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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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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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