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I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

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Susan Sontag
Age: 71 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 16
Died: 2004
Died: December 28
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Art is seduction, not rape.
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To photograph is to confer importance.
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To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have.
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Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.
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I certainly identify myself as a feminist.
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... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve.
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I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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