That's the source of the meditation on death I've carried in my heart all my life.
Susan SontagTags: death
Wherever people feel safe (...) they will be indifferent.
Susan SontagTags: regarding-the-pain-of-others
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
Susan SontagTags: intelligence people humans
It is passivity that dulls feeling.
Susan SontagTags: passivity
...Usted le ofreció a la gente nuevas maneras de imaginar, al tiempo que proclamaba una y otra vez nuestra deuda con el pasado, sobre todo con la literatura. Afirmó que le debemos a la literatura casi todo lo que somos y lo que hemos sido. Si los libros desaparecen, desaparecerá la historia y también los seres humanos. Estoy segura de que tiene razón. Los libros no son sólo la suma arbitraria de nuestros sueños y de nuestra memoria. También nos ofrecen el modelo de la propia trascendencia. Algunos creen que la lectura es sólo una manera de evadirse: una evasión del mundo diario “real” a uno imaginario, al mundo de los libros. Los libros son mucho más. Son una manera de ser del todo humano....
Susan SontagTags: escritores libros literatura susan-sontag jorge-luis-borges autores
Mad people = People who stand alone and burn.
I'm attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same.
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.
Susan SontagThe beauty of modern cities consists in a sense of their power, cruelty, impersonality, massiveness, + variety (as in New York or London) seen against the architectural vestiges of a beautiful past.
Susan SontagThe 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.
Susan SontagThe fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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