Quote by Susan Sontag
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Volume depends precisely on the writers having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. – Susan Sontag

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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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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. – Susan Sontag

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famous
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Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. – Susan Sontag

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It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze. – Andre Rieu

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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die! – Anna Letitia Barbauld

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Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone. – Horatio Nelson

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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom. – Lajos Kossuth

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Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home. – Mother Teresa

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