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Perhaps the only people with the right to look at images of suffering of this extreme order are those who could do something to alleviate it - say, the surgeons at the military hospital where the photograph was taken - or those who could learn from it. The rest of us are voyeurs, whether or not we mean to be.
— Susan Sontag
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Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.
— Susan Sontag
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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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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In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.
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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
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