Quote by Susan Sontag
To take a photograph is to participate in another persons mortalit

To take a photograph is to participate in another persons mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to times relentless melt. – Susan Sontag

Other quotes by Susan Sontag

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. – Susan Sontag

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Sex
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Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life — its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness — conjoin to dull our sensory faculties. – Susan Sontag

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Excess
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Other Quotes from
Time
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Time, the cradle of hope…. Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Time

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. – James A. Baldwin

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Time

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. – Nelson Mandela

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Time

When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass! – Bobby Knight

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Time

Random Quotes

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself. – Plato

Category:
Psychology

Im French, so Im quite lazy about exercising, and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. Thats all. – Eva Green

Category:
fitness

Be it deep or shallow, red or black, sand or clay, the soil is the link between the rock core of the earth and the living things on its surface. It is the foothold for the plants we grow. Therein lies the main reason for our interest in soils. – Roy Simonson, USDA Yearbook of Agriculture, 1957

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Gardens

I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory. – Mickey Kaus

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Anger