Sanity is a cozy lie.

Quote by Susan Sontag

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What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a...

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a...

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to...

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to...

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there...

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there...

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can...

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can...

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or...

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or...

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every...

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every...

Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate...

Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate...

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book....

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book....

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the...

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the...

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful...

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful...

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be...

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be...

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by...

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by...

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been...

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been...

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to...

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to...

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.