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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#feminine #masculine #men #most #most beautiful

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

— Susan Sontag

#album #extended #extended family #family #generally

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#destroy #interesting #only #questions #those

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. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#affront #anything #cannot #consolations #controlled

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#best #lunatics #mad #most #people

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

#beauty #become #change #continues #historical

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#always #anything #known #only #something

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#becomes #photographs #strategy

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#considered #deaths #demeaning #diseases #easy

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#consequences #having #murder #obliges #people