Susan Sontag

My library is an archive of longings. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#library #longing #books

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#sages #thinking #violence #pain

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#intellectual #interpretation #revenge #upon

Today everything exists to end in a photograph. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#photography

Sanity is a cozy lie. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#lie #sanity

Depression is melancholy minus its charms. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#melancholy #metaphor

The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#change #resistance #society #trial #change

10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#humanity #mankind #mercy #mankind

A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#education

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#guilt