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Images are more real than anyone could have supposed.

Susan Sontag

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Susan Sontag
Age: 71 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 16
Died: 2004
Died: December 28
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Human Rights Activist
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New York City
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Susan Rosenblatt
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The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses.
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Courage is morally neutral.
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Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself.
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To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like power.
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Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!
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