Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
SUSAN SONTAGSanity is a cozy lie.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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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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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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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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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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How boring just to be a body.
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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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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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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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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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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Love dies because its birth was an error.
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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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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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