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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

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We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters. – Susan Sontag

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A familys photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it. – Susan Sontag

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I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams. – Susan Sontag

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