My library is an archive of longings.
SUSAN SONTAGIt 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.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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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 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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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.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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