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" 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. "

Susan Sontag

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" A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it. "

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" Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits. "

" I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams. "

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" 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. "

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" To photograph is to confer importance. "

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" The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. "

" Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. "

" Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. "

" Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. "

" I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. "

" Lying is an elementary means of self-defense. "

" Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. "

" The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is. "

" 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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" The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. "

" In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it. "

" 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. "

" So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful. "

" The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions. "