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I was fascinated by quotations and lists. And then I noticed that other people were fascinated by quotations and lists: people as different as Borges and Walter Benjamin, Novalis and Godard.

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Susan Sontag
Age: 71 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 16
Died: 2004
Died: December 28
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What, I ask, drives me to disorder? How can I diagnose myself? All I feel, most immediately, is the most anguished need for physical love and mental companionship -
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We are ruled by quotations.
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I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
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Love is friendship on fire -- anonymous
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Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.
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A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of spirit over matter.
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What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.
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Ideas disturb the levelness of life
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The ratio of authentic literature to trash in pornography may be somewhat lower than the ratio of novels of genuine literary meritto the entire volume of sub-literary fiction produced for mass taste. But it is probably not lower than, for instance, that of another somewhat shady sub-genre with a few first-rate books to its credit, science fiction.
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I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.
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Ultimately ideas come out of a temperament or a sensibility, they are a crystallization or a precipitation of temperament.
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Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner alienation as an urban intellectual.
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A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all.
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She felt herself needing more and more sleep. When she awoke in the morning, she thought of when she might lie down again - and when she would sleep. She started going to the movies.
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Courage is morally neutral.
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The unanimously applauded, self-congratulatory bromides of a Soviet Party Congress seemed contemptible. The unanimity of the sanctimonious, reality-concealing rhetoric spouted by American officials and media commentators in recent days seems, well, unworthy of a mature democracy.
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When you are writing, you are - from society's point of view - only producing the first version which will then be processed and recycled.
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Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.
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Many things in the world have not been named and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described.
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The photographer both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates.
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