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...to be a poet, requires a my...

...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self (and others) are often ruthlessly sacrificed. The poet self is the real self, the other one is the carrier; and when the poet self dies, the person dies.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

War tears, rends. War rips ope...

War tears, rends. War rips open, eviscerates. War scorches. War dismembers. War ruins.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

Photographs may be more memora...

Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph is a privileged moment turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again.

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To photograph people is to vio...

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have...

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

Our appreciations, it was felt...

Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was 'interesting'.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

Conventions vs. spontaneity. T...

Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge that your own time is ridden with empty insincere formalities, you plump for spontaneity, for indecorous behavior even...Much of morality is the task of compensating for one's age. One assumes unfashionable virtues, in an indecorous time. In a time hollowed out by decorum, one must school oneself in spontaneity.

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The fear of becoming old is bo...

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

The writer must be four people...

The writer must be four people: 1) The nut, the obsede 2) The moron 3) The stylist 4) The critic. 1 supplies the material; 2 lets it come out; 3 is taste; 4 is intelligence.

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Writing is a little door. Some...

Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won't come through.

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Art today is a new kind of ins...

Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility . . . . Artists have had to become self-conscious aestheticians: continually challenging their means, their materials and methods.

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Art is not consciousness per s...

Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

In 'life,' I don't want to be ...

In 'life,' I don't want to be reduced to my work. In 'work,' I don't want to be reduced to my life.

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Needing to have reality confir...

Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.

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To suffer is one thing; anothe...

To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to be compassionate. It can also corrupt them. Once one has seen such images, one has started down the road of seeing more - and more. Images transfix. Images anesthetize.

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Mad people = People who stand ...

Mad people = People who stand alone and burn. I'm attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

Compassion is an unstable emot...

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels that there is nothing 'we' can do -- but who is that 'we'? -- and nothing 'they' can do either -- and who are 'they' -- then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic.

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I believe that courage is mora...

I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virtue.

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It's beginnings that are hard....

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.

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A thing is a thing, not what i...

A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing.

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God, living is enormous!...

God, living is enormous!

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