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Author - Susan Sontag
Quotes by : Susan Sontag
photography
All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s)....
the artist
For the modern consciousness, the artist (replacing the saint) is the exemplary sufferer. And among artists,....
ageing
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.....
positive
Although none of the rules for becoming alive is valid it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
atrocity
As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel....
thinness
Twentieth century women's fashions (with their cult of thinness) are the last stronghold of the metaphors....
past
It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear endearing touching precious.....
space
Time does not give one much leeway: it thrusts us forward from behind, blows us through the narrow tunnel....
present
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past....
regarding the pain of others
No "we" should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.
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