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苏珊.桑塔格语录——人间清醒

苏珊·桑塔格(Susan Sontag),美国作家、艺术评论家、女权主义者。主要作品有随笔文集《反对阐释》《论摄影》等,以及小说《火山情人》《在美国》等。桑塔格被誉为“美国公众的良心”。她的文章旁征博引、论题广泛,涉及领域从哲学、美学、文学、心理学到电影、美术、音乐、舞蹈、摄影和戏剧,几乎无所不包,以其才华、敏锐的洞察力和广博的知识著称。苏珊·桑塔格和西蒙娜·波伏瓦、汉娜·阿伦特并称为西方当代最重要的女知识分子。

经典语录:


1.Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.

爱上一个人意味着愿意为这个人毁了自己。


2.Whatever doesn't kill you leaves scars.

凡是没有杀死你的东西,都会让你留下疤痕。


3.Furnishing opinions, even correct opinions - whenever asked - cheapens what novelists and poets do best, which is to sponsor reflectiveness, to pursue complexity.

提供意见,即使是正确的意见——无论什么时候被要求提供——都会使小说家和诗人的看家本领变得廉价,他们的看家本领是启发省思,是追求复杂性。


4.The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth... and refuse to be an accomplice of lies and misinformation.

作家的首要职责不是发表意见,而是讲出真相……以及拒绝成为谎言和假话的同谋。


5.Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

人生是一部电影;死亡是一张照片。


6.Price of freedom is unhappiness.

自由的代价是不幸福。


7.Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

同情是一种不稳定的感情。它需要被转化为行动,否则就会枯竭。


8.The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

画家旨在创建;摄影师旨在披露。

——《论摄影》


9.Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past.

拍照是凝固现实的一种方式。你不能拥有现实,但你可以拥有影像——就像你不能拥有现在,但可以拥有过去。


10.Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.

时间之所以存在,是为了使一切不至于同时发生……空间之所以存在,是为了使一切不至于都发生在你身上。

——《同时》


11.Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was 'interesting'.

如果我们不说某东西美而说它“有趣”,则我们的欣赏范围就可以包容得多。


12.Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

同情是一种不稳定的感情。它需要被转化为行动,否则就会枯竭。


13.Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom.

文学是进入一种更广大的生活的护照,也即进入自由地带的护照。

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