Quotes From "Reborn: Journals And Notebooks 19471963" By Susan Sontag

The only interesting ideas are heresies Susan Sontag

I am scared, numbed from the marital wars - that deadly, deadening combat which is the opposite, the antithesis of the sharp painful struggles of lovers. Lovers fight with knives and whips, husbands and wives poisoned marshmallows, sleeping pills, and wet blankets. Susan Sontag

All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation. Susan Sontag

All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation. Susan Sontag

It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin. Susan Sontag

No such thing as a temptation. A temptation is a desire, a lust like any other - but one that we regret afterwards + wish undone (or that we know beforehand we will regret after). So it`s no excuse to say, ``I didn`t mean to do it. I was tempted + I couldn`t resist.`` All one can honestly say is, ``I did it. I`m sorry I did it.``- Reborn Susan Sontag

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting. Susan Sontag

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes. It is equivalent to a sense of abusing the present. Susan Sontag

I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path. Susan Sontag