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Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts- it is the most abstract, the most perfect, the most pure- and the most sensual. I listen with my body and it is my body that aches in response to the

Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts- it is the most abstract, the most perfect, the most pure- and the most sensual. I listen with my body and it is my body that aches in response to the passion and pathos embodied in this music.

Susan Sontag
Art, Passion, Perfect
Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.10, Macmillan

Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense of the past.

Susan Sontag
Passion, Past, Photographer
Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.70, Macmillan

As one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is to keep oneself eager about anything.

Susan Sontag
Life, Art, Passion
Susan Sontag (1992). “The Volcano Lover”

Passion paralyzes good taste.

Susan Sontag
Passion, Taste, Good Taste
Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.40, Macmillan

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Susan Sontag
Love, Strong, Passion
Christine Allison, Susan Sontag (1978). “The benefactor: a novel”, Delta

With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease -- because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses.

Susan Sontag
Cancer, Moving, Passion
Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

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