Susan Sontag
View AuthorIt's not wrong to be beautiful; what's wrong is the obligation to be so.
Susan Sontag
View AuthorArt is seduction, not abduction.
Susan Sontag
View AuthorParaphrasing the wise: No one can think and hit someone at the same time.
Susan Sontag
View AuthorDepression is melancholy without its charms.
Susan Sontag
View AuthorTime exists so that not everything happens at the same time... and space exists so that not everything happens to you.
Susan Sontag
View AuthorI want to be able to be alone, find it nourishing, not just a wait.
Susan Sontag
View AuthorTo love hurts. It's like giving yourself up to be skinned and knowing that at any moment the other person could leave taking your skin with them.
Susan Sontag
View AuthorI write to define myself, an act of self-creation, in a dialogue with myself, with writers I admire, both living and dead, and with ideal readers. Because it gives me pleasure. I'm not sure exactly what purpose my work serves.
Sorell
View AuthorThe dance is sculpture in motion.
Robert Spaemann
View AuthorTo forgive is to not take too much into account the limitations and flaws of the other, to not take them too seriously, but to diminish their importance, with good humor, saying: 'I know you're not like that!'
Robert Spaemann
View AuthorThe dependence of people on television is the most destructive fact of current civilization.
Robert Spaemann
View AuthorTelevision systematically destroys the distinction between normal and abnormal, because within its parameters, normal lacks sufficient interest and therefore always needs to be contrasted with an alternative. Its criteria are not the dissemination of values and principles, but rather to provoke the greatest impact.