Susan Sontag Quotes about Lust

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The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.

The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.

Susan Sontag

Photography, Inspire, Lust

Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.156, Macmillan

A lot of what I've written in criticism of my lust for virtue - my discovery that I've committed idolatry, making of the good an idol - is open to the charge of being still caught within the dialectic of idolatry. I've made a moral criticism of my moral consciousness. Meta-idolatry.

Susan Sontag

Discovery, Idols, Lust

Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.330, Macmillan