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The capacity to be overwhelmed by the beautiful is astonishingly sturdy and survives amidst the harshest distractions (Susan Sontag Quotes)
The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust (Susan Sontag Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn’t write to others any more; one writes to oneself (Susan Sontag Quotes)
I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Paintings invariably sum up; photographs usually do not. Photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. And one photograph, unlike one painting, implies that there will be others (Susan Sontag Quotes)
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 Quotes)
By furnishing this already crowded world with a duplicate one of images, photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it really is (Susan Sontag Quotes)
People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing (Susan Sontag Quotes)
You can go into all sorts of situations with a camera and people will think they should serve it (Susan Sontag Quotes)
The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence (Susan Sontag Quotes)
The process of building a self and its works is always too slow. One is always in arrears to oneself (Susan Sontag Quotes)
On the level of simple sensation and mood, making love surely resembles an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone (Susan Sontag Quotes)
The traditional metaphor for a spiritual investigation is that of the voyage or the journey. From this image I must dissociate myself. I do not consider myself a voyager, I have preferred to stand still (Susan Sontag Quotes)
One man thinks before he acts. Another man thinks after he acts. Each is of the opinon that the other thinks too much (Susan Sontag Quotes)
The appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one’s life (Susan Sontag Quotes)
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall (Susan Sontag Quotes)
War is elective. It is not an inevitable state of affairs. War is not the weather (Susan Sontag Quotes)
You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic awareness and promotes emotional detachment (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail (Susan Sontag Quotes)
... the place we assign to pornography depends on the goals we set for our own consciousness, our own experience (Susan Sontag Quotes)
In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself (Susan Sontag Quotes)
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them (Susan Sontag Quotes)
Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance (Susan Sontag Quotes)