#v

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#eventually #everyone #makes #other #own

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#attention #envy #feel #i #paying

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

"Camp" is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#exaggerated #love #particular #style #terms

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

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#becomes #photographs #strategy

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#guilt #inexorable #innocence #logic #suggest

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

— Susan Sontag

#consequences #having #murder #obliges #people