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Susan Sontag Quote: “AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To acknowledge the existence of the incorrigible.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “If one could amputate part of one’s consciousness...”
Susan Sontag Quote: “In fact, there are many uses of the innumerable opportunities a modern life supplies for regarding – at a distance, through the medium of photography – other people’s pain.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “People tend to become cynical about even the most appalling crisis if it seems to be dragging on, failing to come to term.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “It is the action of bodies on bodies, not bodies on minds, which the crowd enjoys.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “To be sure, nobody who really thinks about history can take politics altogether seriously.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “Experiences aren’t pornographic; only images and representations – structures of the imagination – are.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “There are some elements in life – above all, sexual pleasure – about which it isn’t necessary to have a position.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “Few ever see what is not already inside their heads.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “Courage is morally neutral.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “My love wants to incorporate her totally, to eat her. My love is selfish.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “The “happening” operates by creating an asymmetrical network of surprises, without climax or consummation, this is the alogism of dreams rather than the logic of most art.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “It’s beginnings that are hard. I always begin with a great sense of dread and trepidation. Nietzsche says that the decision to start writing is like leaping into a cold lake.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “Elites presuppose masses.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance to let anybody flunk the test.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of spirit over matter.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “Strictly speaking, it is doubtful that a photograph can help us understand anything.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “The early Romantic sought superiority by desiring, and by desiring to desire, more intensely than others do.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “The only ideals allowed are healthy ones – those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “Making suffering loom larger, by globalizing it, may spur people to feel they ought to “care” more.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “I have always been full of lust – as I am now – but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “You can go into all sorts of situations with a camera and people will think they should serve it.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “Why wouldn’t you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It’s far more interesting to write about others.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “He looked into the hole, and like any hole it said, Jump.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry which befoul the urban atmosphere, the effusion of interpretations of art today poisons our sensibilities. In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “Writing is a mysterious activity.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “The single most amazing phenomenon is the discrediting of idealism.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “Being self-conscious. Treating one’s self as an other. Supervising oneself.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction – as if one were obliged to choose between them...”
Susan Sontag Quote: “The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “Beware of anything that you hear yourself saying often.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “Who believes today that war can be abolished? No one, not even pacifists.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “My repressed feelings leak out – slowly – in the form of resentment – a continual leakage of resentment.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera’s eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “A personality is our way of being for others. We hope that others will meet us half way or more, gratify our needs, be our audience, soothe our fears.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “In a time hollowed out by decorum, one must school oneself in spontaneity.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “What, I ask, drives me to disorder? How can I diagnose myself? All I feel, most immediately, is the most anguished need for physical love and mental companionship -.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed – that is the modern view.”
Susan Sontag Quote: “Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can’t force it.”
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