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Susan Sontag has 349 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• It's hard not to be afraid. Be less afraid.
• Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
• Like the effects of industrial pollution and the new system of global financial markets, the AIDS crisis is evidence of a world…
• One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working…
• It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
• Taste has no system and no proofs.
• The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures…
• The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which…
• Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology...
• Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's…
• Remember when you hear yourself saying one day that you don't have time anymore to read or listen to music or look…
• Death is unbearable unless you can get beyond the I.

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