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Susan Sontag
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"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."
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Susan Sontag
Topic(s):
Death
"Books are funny little portable pieces of thought."
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Susan Sontag
Topic(s):
Funny
"I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams."
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Susan Sontag
Topic(s):
Dreams
"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art."
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Susan Sontag
Topic(s):
Art
"I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future."
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Susan Sontag
Topic(s):
Equality
"Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs."
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Susan Sontag
Topic(s):
Travel
"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."
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Susan Sontag
Topic(s):
Beauty
"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art – and, by analogy, our own experience – more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."
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Susan Sontag
Topic(s):
Art
"What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine."
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Susan Sontag
Topic(s):
Men
"Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics."
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Susan Sontag
Topic(s):
Society
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