Susan Sontag

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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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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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.
Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.
The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
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.
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

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