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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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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Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. – Susan Sontag

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Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style — but a particular kind of style. It is love of the exaggerated. – Susan Sontag

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Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time. – Bruce Springsteen

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Man goes nowhere. Everything comes to man, like tomorrow. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. Im not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time. – Bjork

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I have seen a flower blooming in beauty in a secluded vale, and, ere I had a chance to look again, a chilly breath of air had scattered its petals and left it a ruin. – Charles Lanman, “Musings,” 1840

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