The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects – making it possible… to see a new beauty in what is vanishing. – Susan Sontag
A familys photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it. – Susan Sontag
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. – Susan Sontag
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. – Susan Sontag