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Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition. The best it aims for is the creation of strong, mutual

Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition. The best it aims for is the creation of strong, mutual dependencies.

Susan Sontag
Strong, Feelings, Creation
Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.83, Macmillan

One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.

Susan Sontag
Feelings, Asks
Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.27, Macmillan

Dissimulation, secretiveness, appear a necessity to the melancholic. He has complex, often veiled relations with others. These feelings of superiority, of inadequacy, of baffled feeling, of not being able to get what one wants, or even name it properly (or consistently) to oneself — these can be, it is felt they ought to be, masked by friendliness, or the most scrupulous manipulation.

Susan Sontag
Names, Feelings, Want

The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.

Susan Sontag
Art, Writing, Feelings

Self-censorship, the most important and most successful form of censorship, is rampant. Debate is identified with dissent, which is in turn identified with disloyalty. There is a widespread feeling that, in this new, open-ended emergency, we may not be able to 'afford' our traditional freedoms.

Susan Sontag
Successful, Self, Feelings
Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.152, Macmillan

[On marriage:] It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings.

Susan Sontag
Feelings, Institutions, Committed
Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.83, Macmillan

In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent, is insanity.

Susan Sontag
Spiritual, Insanity, Feelings
Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

It is passivity that dulls feeling.

Susan Sontag
Feelings, Passivity
Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.102, Macmillan

It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel.

Susan Sontag
Photography, Feelings, Cameras
Susan Sontag (1978). “On photography”, Delta

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