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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
Written by Susan Sontag
Sanity is a cozy lie.
Written by Susan Sontag
Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.
Written by Susan Sontag
'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.
Written by Susan Sontag
Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.
Written by Susan Sontag
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
Written by Susan Sontag
It is not the position, but the disposition.
Written by Susan Sontag
Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.
Written by Susan Sontag
What we need is to use what we have.
Written by Susan Sontag
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
Written by Susan Sontag
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
Written by Susan Sontag
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
Written by Susan Sontag
Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
Written by Susan Sontag
In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.
Written by Susan Sontag
To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.
Written by Susan Sontag
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
Written by Susan Sontag
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
Written by Susan Sontag
The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.
Written by Susan Sontag
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
Written by Susan Sontag
AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.
Written by Susan Sontag
Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.
Written by Susan Sontag
Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.
Written by Susan Sontag
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
Written by Susan Sontag
A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
Written by Susan Sontag
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
Written by Susan Sontag
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
Written by Susan Sontag
The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
Written by Susan Sontag
Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
Written by Susan Sontag
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
Written by Susan Sontag
Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.
Written by Susan Sontag

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