“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.”
— Susan Sontag
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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.”
— Susan Sontag
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“The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.”
— Susan Sontag
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“Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.”
— Susan Sontag
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“Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.”
— Susan Sontag
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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.”
— Susan Sontag
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“Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.”
— Susan Sontag
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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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“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.”
— Susan Sontag
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“I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.”
— Susan Sontag
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“Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.”
— Susan Sontag
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