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Susan Sontag

United States writer (born in 1933)

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Sanity is a cozy lie.

– Susan Sontag

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The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.

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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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We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.

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

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AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

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AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences suicide. Or murder.

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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.

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

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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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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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Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life -- its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness -- conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.

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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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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

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

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What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

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What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

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