Susan Sontag

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#idea #interested #someone #writer

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#become #been #camera #photographs #rather

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#becomes #blame #evil #identified #illness

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

— Susan Sontag

#militants #only #signs #surrealism #thought

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

— Susan Sontag

#expansion #ideology #indefinite #into #liberty

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#famous #independent #intensity #like #love

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#extinction #only #problems #solved #truly

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

— Susan Sontag

#ideas #kind #really #taste

To photograph is to confer importance. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#importance #photograph