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.
SUSAN SONTAGI don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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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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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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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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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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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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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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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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