Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

Quote by Susan Sontag

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Sanity is a cozy lie.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

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.

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom...

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom...

It is not the position, but the disposition.

It is not the position, but the disposition.

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite...

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite...

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to...

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to...

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...

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than...

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than...

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian...

The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian...

Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness...

Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness...

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also...

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also...

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

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

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my...

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my...

If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should...

If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should...

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.