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“Fa male allora amare. È come accettare di farsi scorticare sapendo che in qualunque momento l'altra persona può andarsene via con la tua pelle.”

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Origine: Dai Taccuini e i diari di Susan Sontag, 1958-67.

“La paura di invecchiare viene nel momento in cui si riconosce di non vivere la vita che si desidera. Equivale alla sensazione di abusare del presente.”

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“Il carattere contingente delle fotografie conferma che tutto è caduco.”

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libro Sulla fotografia. Realtà e immagine nella nostra società

“Se spariranno i libri, sparirà la storia, e spariranno anche gli esseri umani… I libri non sono soltanto la somma arbitraria dei nostri sogni, e la nostra memoria. Ci offrono anche un modello di autotrascendenza. C'è chi pensa che la lettura sia soltanto una forma di evasione: un'evasione dal mondo «reale» di tutti i giorni, verso un mondo immaginario, il mondo dei libri. I libri sono molto di più. Sono una maniera per essere pienamente umani.”

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Odio sentirmi una vittima: intervista su amore, dolore e scrittura con Jonathan Cott

“Il pittore costruisce, il fotografo rivela.”

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Origine: Da Sulla Fotografia.

“Nessuno che ami la vita vorrebbe imitare la sua dedizione al martirio […]. Tuttavia, Simone Weil ci commuove.”

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Citazioni di Susan Sontang Origine: Da un articolo per la rivista The New York Review of Books, 1963; citato in Simona Forti, Il femminile senza idolatrie http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2009/02/03/il-femminile-senza-idolatrie.html, la Repubblica, 3 febbraio 2009.

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“Solo adesso mi sto rendendo conto di quanto mi sento in colpa d'essere omosessuale. Con H. ero convinta che la cosa non mi turbasse, ma mentivo a me stessa. Ho fatto in modo che gli altri (per esempio Annette) credessero che il mio vizio fosse H., e che se non fosse per lei non sarei omosessuale, o almeno non prevalentemente.”

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“Lo ripeto: non solo il fascismo (e una militarizzazione del potere) è il destino più probabile di tutte le società comuniste – specialmente quando le loro popolazioni sono indotte a ribellarsi – ma il comunismo in se stesso è una variante, la più efficace, del fascismo. Un facismo dal volto umano.”

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Origine: Citato in Edmund White, Ragazzo di città, Playground, 2010, 2a edizione, p. 284. ISBN 978-88-89113-52-3.

“Leggere e ascoltare musica: trionfi del mio uscire da me stessa.”

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Origine: Da Pellegrinaggio, traduzione di Paolo Dilonardo, Archinto, Milano, 2004.

“La malattia è il lato notturno della vita.”

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Origine: Da Malattia come metafora, traduzione di E. Capriolo, Einaudi, 1979.

“La noia non è che il contrario della fascinazione: entrambe dipendono dall'essere al di fuori piuttosto che dentro una situazione, e l'una conduce all'altra.”

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“Strano che non avessi mai pensato di andare in una biblioteca. Dovevo acquistarli, vederli in fila lungo una parete della mia minuscola camera da letto. Le mie divinità familiari. Le mie navicelle spaziali.”

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Origine: Da Pellegrinaggio.

“Un giudizio, disse Nicky, è un grido di impotenza. Quando non si può far niente per cambiare una situazione, cosa resta se non giudicarla?”

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Origine: Dal racconto Vecchie lagnanze rivisitate, in Io, eccetera, traduzione di Stefania Bertola, 1963.

Susan Sontag: Frasi in inglese

“Between two fantasy alternatives, that Holbein the Younger had lived long enough to have painted Shakespeare or that a prototype of the camera had been invented early enough to have photographed him, most Bardolators would choose the photograph. This is not just because it would presumably show what Shakespeare really looked like, for even if the photograph were faded, barely legible, a brownish shadow, we would probably still prefer it to another glorious Holbein. Having a photograph of Shakespeare would be like having a nail from the True Cross.”

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Susan Sontag libro On Photography

"The Image-World", p. 154
On Photography (1977)

“We live in a culture in which intelligence is denied relevance altogether, in a search for radical innocence, or is defended as an instrument of authority and repression. In my view, the only intelligence worth defending is critical, dialectical, skeptical, desimplifying.”

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"Women, the Arts, & the Politics of Culture: An Interview with Susan Sontag" in Salmagundi, No. 31-32 (Fall/Winter 1975), p. 29; later published in Conversations with Susan Sontag (1995) edited by Leland A. Poague, p. 77

“"Old" and "new" are the perennial poles of all feeling and sense of orientation in the world. We cannot do without the old, because in what is old is invested all our past, our wisdom, our memories, our sadness, our sense of realism. We cannot do without faith in the new, because in what is new is invested all our energy, our capacity for optimism, our blind biological yearning, our ability to forget — the healing ability that makes reconciliation possible.”

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Frankfurt Book Fair speech (2003)

“The United States is a generically religious society. That is, in the United States it's not important which religion you adhere to, as long as you have one.”

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Frankfurt Book Fair speech (2003)

“The Bush administration has committed the country to a new, pseudo-religious doctrine of war, endless war — for "the war on terror" is nothing less than that.”

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Regarding the Torture of Others (2004)

“To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world—in order to set up a shadow world of "meanings."”

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Origine: Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966), p. 7

“As Cioran correctly points out, a principal danger of being overcivilized is that one all to easily relapses, out of sheer exhaustion and the unsatisfied need to be “stimulated,” into a vulgar and passive barbarism. Thus, “the man who unmasks his fictions” through an indiscriminate pursuit of the lucidity that is promoted by modern liberal culture “renounces his own resources and, in a sense, himself. Consequently, he will accept other fictions which will deny him, since they will not have cropped up from his own depth.” There, he concludes, “no man concerned with his own equilibrium may exceed a certain degree of lucidity and analysis.””

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Susan Sontag libro Styles of Radical Will

“‘Thinking against oneself’: reflections on Cioran,” p. 85
Styles of Radical Will (1966)

“Photography has become almost as widely practiced an amusement as sex and dancing.”

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Susan Sontag libro On Photography

In Plato's Cave, p. 8 http://books.google.com/books?id=B8DktTyeRNkC&q=%22Photography+has+become+almost+as+widely+practiced+an+amusement+as+sex+and+dancing%22&pg=PA8#v=onepage Previously published as Photography http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1973/oct/18/photography/ in The New York Review of Books, 18 October 1973 On Photography (1977)

“Yes, this is Europe. The Europe that did not respond to the Serb shelling of Dubrovnik. Or the three-year siege of Sarajevo. The Europe that let Bosnia die.
A new definition of Europe: the place where tragedies don't take place. Wars, genocides — that happened here once, but no longer. It's something that happens in Africa. (Or places in Europe that are not "really" Europe. That is, the Balkans.) Again, perhaps I exaggerate. But having spent a good part of three years, from 1993 to 1996, in Sarajevo, it does not seem to me like an exaggeration at all.”

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"Why Are We In Kosovo?" inThe New York Times Magazine http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07E1DA163DF931A35756C0A96F958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all (2 May 1999)

“And isn't it usually so, that lovers who share their daily lives with each other gradually find they need to put very little into words?”

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Origine: Death Kit (1967), p.270

“It depends on me, whether I'm happy within myself.”

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Origine: Death Kit (1967), p.189

“According to an old rule of psychic contagion: that absence of clarity or outright confusion in one, just one specific, local matter will end by infecting the whole of one's judgment.”

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Origine: Death Kit (1967), p.160

“To love one's work is a way of loving oneself, and leaves one freer to love other people.
But beware the difference between loving one's work and being merely engrossed in it.”

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Origine: Death Kit (1967), p.149

“Don't be too hard on the envious. Be glad you have, or had in the past, something enviable.”

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Origine: Death Kit (1967), p.73 [Page numbers per the Penguin Modern Classics 2009 Edition]

“Etymologically, patient means sufferer. It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. That illness can be not an epic of suffering but the occasion of some kind of self-transcendence is affirmed by sentimental literature and, more convincingly, by case histories offered by doctor-writers. Some illnesses seem more apt than others for this kind of meditation.”

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Susan Sontag libro AIDS and Its Metaphors

Origine: AIDS and Its Metaphors, (1989), ch. 4, p. 125, Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-312-42013-7 ; later published in combination with Illness As Metaphor. This combined edition is the one referenced here.

“Shall I tell you about getting older? When you get older, 45 plus, men stop fancying you. Or put it another way, the men I fancy don't fancy me. I want a young man. I love beauty. So what's new?”

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Origine: "Finding fact from fiction", The Guardian (27 May 2000) http://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/may/27/fiction.features

“If America is the culmination of Western white civilisation, as everyone from the Left to the Right declares, then there must be something terribly wrong with Western white civilisation.”

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Origine: Partisan Review (Winter 1967), p. 57

“I don't feel guilt at being unsociable, though I may sometimes regret it because my lonliness is painful. But when I move into the world, it feels like a moral fall, like seeking love in a whorehouse.”

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Origine: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980