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Rather Quotes by Susan Sontag
- Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The ultimate…
- Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself.
- We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. And the more portentous,…
- I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
- So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.
- The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather…
- It's so effortless to let my loneliness defeat me, make me mold myself to whatever would (in some way - but not wholly) relieve it.…
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- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
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- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
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- The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further… — Neil Armstrong
- The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov