In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
SUSAN SONTAGA 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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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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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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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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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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