Living abroad facilitates treating life as a spectacle. - Susan Sontag

I embrace my solitude as a beautiful gift; I will become beautiful through it.

I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it.

Time liberates the work of art from moral relevance, delivering it over to the Camp sensibility . . . Another effect: time contracts the sphere of banality. (Banality is, strictly speaking, always a category of the contemporary.) What was banal can, with the passage of time, become fantastic.