Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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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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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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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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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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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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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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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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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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