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title: "3 Possess Reality Quotes by 1 author"
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> [Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. One can't possess reality, one can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/photographs-are-a-way-of-imprisoning-reality-understood-as/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/photographs-are-a-way-of-imprisoning-reality-one-can-t-possess/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. Or they enlarge a reality that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/photographs-are-a-way-of-imprisoning-reality-understood-as-2/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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