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“The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.”

Susan Sontag · History

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Susan Sontag

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

Family

Susan Sontag

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

Death

Susan Sontag

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.

Time

Susan Sontag

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Intelligence