In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
SUSAN SONTAGFear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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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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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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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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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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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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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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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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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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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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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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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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