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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.

Susan Sontag

Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
SUSAN SONTAG

Different People Safe
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
SUSAN SONTAG

Existence Science Space Time
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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Artist Hands Writing
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
SUSAN SONTAG

Kill Scars Yourself
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
SUSAN SONTAG

Ability Exercise Literature
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
SUSAN SONTAG

Encouragement Inspirational Life
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
SUSAN SONTAG

Comedy Feeling Tragedy
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
SUSAN SONTAG

People Transformation
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
SUSAN SONTAG

Change Easy Endurance
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
SUSAN SONTAG

Attention Eagerness Vitality
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
SUSAN SONTAG

Frame Photography
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
SUSAN SONTAG

Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
SUSAN SONTAG

Intelligent Life Talk
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
SUSAN SONTAG

Live Old Oneself Recognition

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