Susan Sontag
"A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.[Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade), Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]"
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"A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.[Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade), Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]"
"أرى الكاتبَ من يولي العالمَ اهتمامَه."
Susan Sontag
"My library is an archive of longings."
"مكتبتي أرشيفٌ من الأشواق."
Susan Sontag
As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
"Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history."
"إن موزارت، وباسكال، والجبر البولياني، وشكسبير، والحكومة البرلمانية، والكنائس الباروكية، ونيوتن، وتحرير المرأة، وكانط، وباليهات بالانشين، وغيرهم، لا يشفعون لما أحدثته هذه الحضارة بالذات في العالم. إن العرق الأبيض هو سرطان التاريخ البشري."
Susan Sontag
"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art."
"التأويل انتقام المثقف من الفن."
Susan Sontag
"Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future."
"الوجود ليس سوى بلوغ هشٍّ للأهمية في تدفقٍ متقلبٍ شديدِ الحركة من الماضي والحاضر والمستقبل."
Susan Sontag
"Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics."
"أغلب الناس في هذا المجتمع، ممن لم يجنّوا بعد"
Susan Sontag
"What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine."
"إن أجمل ما في الرجال الأقوياء هو لمسة من الأنو"
Susan Sontag
"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art."
"التأويل انتقام المثقف من الفن."
Susan Sontag
"The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing."
"إن الماضي نفسه، مع تسارع وتيرة التغير التاريخي"
Susan Sontag
"Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs."
"يغدو السفر استراتيجية لتكديس الصور."
Susan Sontag
"The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie."
"الحق هو التوازن. بيد أن نقيض الحق، وهو اللا توازن، قد لا يكون كذباً."
Susan Sontag
"What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine."
"أجمل ما في الرجال الأقوياء هو شيء من الأنوثة، وأجمل ما في النساء الرقيقات هو شيء من الرجولة."
Susan Sontag
"I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future."
Susan Sontag
"For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied."
Susan Sontag
"The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons."
Susan Sontag
"As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure."
Susan Sontag
"Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility."
Susan Sontag
"I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams."
Susan Sontag
"Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past present and future."
Susan Sontag
"It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear endearing touching precious. At least the past is safe-though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past because we have survived."
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