As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.

Quote by Susan Sontag

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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence...

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence...

The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian...

The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian...

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in...

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in...

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate...

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate...

What we need is to use what we have.

What we need is to use what we have.

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to...

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to...

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to...

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to...

Perversity is the muse of modern literature

Perversity is the muse of modern literature

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of...

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of...

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite...

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite...

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

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

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of...

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of...

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various...

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various...

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a...

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a...

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

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

From this point, silence and intelligence are just two aspects of the same thing.

From this point, silence and intelligence are just two aspects of the same thing.

The professional moralist in our day is a man of less than average intelligence.

The professional moralist in our day is a man of less than average intelligence.