Susan Sontag Quotes
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The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way things really are --- and always will be. How things really are --- and always will be --- is neither a...
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Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene -- in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people`s reality, and eventually in one`s own.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
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What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
| Name | Susan Sontag |
| Date of Birth | January 28, 1933 |
| Star Sign | Aquarius |
| Died | December 28, 2004 (Aged 71) |
| Occupation | Personality |
