Saturday, April 7, 2012

Wisdom Of The Week

  • I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces “intelligence.” 
  • “I don’t claim my opinions are right,” or “just because I have opinions doesn’t mean I’m right.” 
  • Being in love = addiction, obsession, exclusion of others, insatiable demand for presence, paralysis of other interests and activities. A disease of love, a fever (therefore exalting). One “falls” in love. But this is one disease which, if one must have it, is better to have often rather than infrequently. It’s less mad to fall in love often (less inaccurate for there are many wonderful people in the world) than only two or three times in one’s life. Or maybe it’s better always to be in love with several people at any given time.  
- Excerpts from Susan Sontag's new book As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980 (via MR)

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