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Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag

American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist

Lived from: 1933 - 2004

Category: Politics | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 16 january 1933 Died: 28 december 2004

  • AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.
  • AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.
  • A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of ''spirit'' over matter.

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  • Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
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  • In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.
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  • It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe - though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.
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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.
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