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Persons Quotes by Susan Sontag
- Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.
- Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous…
- Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual…
- What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person…
- It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just…
- Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
- Persons who merely have-a-life customarily move in a dense fluid. That's how they're able to conduct their lives at all. Their living depends on not…
- Taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and taste in ideas.
- 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…
- In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.
- The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
- I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all
- [O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.
- ...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…
- 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…
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- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
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- No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. — Mary Kay Ash