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" The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. "
Susan Sontag
Everyone
Camera
Reality
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" Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. "
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" Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims. "
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" I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams. "
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" Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. "
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" 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. "
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" The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. "
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" A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning. "
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" In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it. "
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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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" Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph. "
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" Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them. "
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" Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech. "
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" The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. "
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" Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. "
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" Sanity is a cozy lie. "
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" 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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" AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. "
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" The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. "
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" 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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