Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I have to come out of the closet of the third person and speak in a more direct way. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Persons who merely have-a-life customarily move in a dense fluid. That's how they're able to conduct their lives at all. Their living… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
If within the last century art conceived as an autonomous activity has come to be invested with an unprecedented stature - the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Superficial to understand the journal as just a receptable for one's private, secret thoughts - like a confidante who is deaf, dumb,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Why not eliminate schooling between age 12-16? It’s biologically + psychologically too turbulent a time to be cooped up inside, made to sit all… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
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