Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
SUSAN SONTAGMy library is an archive of longings.
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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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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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My library is an archive of longings.
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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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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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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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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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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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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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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Photographers are always imposing.
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