"What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine."
-Susan Sontag
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"The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.“
-Susan Sontag
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"The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie."
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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."
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"Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics."
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