In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said. . . of the … - Susan Sontag

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Susan Sontag

In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said. . . of the contradiction between expression and the presence of the inexpressible. Stylistic devices are also techniques of avoidance. The most potent elements of a work of art are, often, its silences.

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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.

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The white race is the cancer of human history, it is the white race, and it aloneits ideologies and inventionswhich eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself.

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. . . what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.

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

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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.

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