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To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.
Susan Sontag
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Susan Sontag
Age: 71 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 16
Died: 2004
Died: December 28
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We are ruled by quotations.
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Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.
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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.
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