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Susan Sontag Quotes

Susan Sontag quotes about personality

American Author January 28, 1933 – December 28, 2004

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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. Susan Sontag
It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin. Susan Sontag
...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self (and others) are often ruthlessly sacrificed. The poet self is the real self, the other one is the carrier; and when the poet self dies, the person dies. Susan Sontag
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. Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag quote: "I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired..."
I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag quote: "In America, the photographer is not simply the person who..."
In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it. Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag quote: "[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing..."
[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing. Susan Sontag

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