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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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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Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. – Susan Sontag

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Science
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The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art – and, by analogy, our own experience – more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means. – Susan Sontag

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Language… has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. – Paul Tillich

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It is very easy to love alone. – Gertrude Stein

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Thus, the poets word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world. – Salvatore Quasimodo

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There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. – Jules Renard

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