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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. "
Susan Sontag
Alone
Year
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" 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. "
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" Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits. "
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" Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. "
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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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" I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up. "
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" Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. "
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" The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication. "
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" It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones. "
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" Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. "
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" Lying is an elementary means of self-defense. "
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" Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. "
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" It is not the position, but the disposition. "
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" As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure. "
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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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" The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste. "
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