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" What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. "
Susan Sontag
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" The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions. "
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" I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. "
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" Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech. "
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" Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. "
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" AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. "
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" 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 camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. "
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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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" The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. "
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" Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. "
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" Lying is an elementary means of self-defense. "
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" Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance. "
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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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" 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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" In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it. "
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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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" Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois. "
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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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