Susan Sontag – The Marginalian
Romanian Philosopher Emil Cioran on the Courage to Disillusion Yourself| The Marginalian
Romanian Philosopher Emil Cioran on the Courage to Disillusion Yourself| The Marginalian
“Art is a form of consciousness.”| The Marginalian
“Most of the interesting art of our time is boring.”| The Marginalian
How the light and heat of the sun made their way into your fireplace.| The Marginalian
“When you give people more control over the flow of information and decision making in their communities, their social health improves — incrementally, in fits and starts, but also inex…| The Marginalian
“Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.” Artist Wendy MacNaughton captures Sontag’s most private meditations on love.| The Marginalian
“There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work.”| The Marginalian
“Aphoristic thinking is impatient thinking.”| The Marginalian
“A just/ discriminating censorship is impossible.”| The Marginalian
Would you steal to save a loved one’s life, and how would you justify doing or not doing it?| The Marginalian
I recently had the pleasure of meeting the wonderful Gretchen Rubin of The Happiness Project fame, who inspired me to excavate an old pet project of mine featured here a few years ago: An explorato…| The Marginalian
“Every individual is representative of the whole, a symptom, and should be intimately understood.”| The Marginalian
“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”| The Marginalian
