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Susan Sontag Quotes
«The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.»
«One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this economic system, which has bestowed these unprecedented liberties, most cherished in the form of physical mobility and material prosperity, depends on encouraging people to defy limits.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
amuse, bestowed, cherished, consume, defy, economic system, encouraging, liberties, messages, mobility, unprecedented
«AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
AIDS, await, catastrophes, occupies, populations, privileged, represent
«It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph -- only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
altogether, mysterious, photograph, relevant
«Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.»
«The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
complicity, reflects, scenario, scenarios, uncontrollable
«For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
affront, affronted, consolations, controlled, obscene