Love dies because its birth was an error.
SUSAN SONTAGHow boring just to be a body.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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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A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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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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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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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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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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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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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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