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Experiences aren't pornographic; only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are.

Experiences aren't pornographic; only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are.

Susan Sontag
Imagination, Structure, Pornography
Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.313, Macmillan

Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology.

Susan Sontag
Imagination, Growing, Disease

Total experiences, of which there are many kinds, tend again and again to be apprehended only as revivals or translations of the religious imagination. To try to make a fresh way of talking at the most serious, ardent, and enthusiastic level, heading off the religious encapsulation, is one of the primary intellectual tasks of future thought.

Susan Sontag
Religious, Talking, Imagination
"Styles of Radical Will" by Susan Sontag, (p. 69), 1966.

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