All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
SUSAN SONTAGShouting has never made me understand anything.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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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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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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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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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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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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To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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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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Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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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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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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