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• To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

  Susan Sontag

  Thinking, Sage, Paraphrase

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.118, Macmillan

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• Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism

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  Ironic, Collecting, Quotations

  On Photography "Melancholy Objects" (1977)

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• Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex.

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  Sex, Self, Secret

  Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.27, Macmillan

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• One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.

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  Play, Serious, Frivolous

  Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.174, Macmillan

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• To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like power.

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  Photography, Mean, World

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.6, Macmillan

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• What I expect from writers-and from myself as a writer-is to articulate a complex view of things. To incite us to be more compassionate. To orchestrate our mourning. And to celebrate ecstasy.

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  Views, Mourning, Celebrate

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• The easiest thing in the world for me is to pay attention.

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  Atención, Mundo, Pagar

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• Todas las fotografías aspiran a la condición de ser memorables, es decir, inolvidables.

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  Photography, Memorable, Being Me

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.126, Macmillan

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• Cameras began duplicating the world at that moment when the human landscape started to undergo a vertiginous rate of change: while an untold number of forms of biological and social life are being destroyed in a brief span of time, a device is available to record what is disappearing.

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  Photography, Numbers, Cameras

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.17, Macmillan

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• Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

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  Funny, Book, Science

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

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  Two, World, Extinction

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• If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

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  Tragedy, Comedy, Detachment

  Susan Sontag (1983). "A Susan Sontag reader", Vintage

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• Thinking, writing are ultimately questions of stamina.

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  Writing, Thinking, Stamina

  Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.555, Macmillan

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• I have been told that I am a "natural" feminist, someone who was born a feminist. In fact I was quite blind to what the problem was: I couldn't understand why anyone would hesitate to do what they wanted to do just because they were told that women didn't do such things.

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  Feminist, Facts, Problem

  Fuente: ctheory.net

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• Photographers are always imposing

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  Photographer, Imposing

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.8, Macmillan

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• Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood.

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  Photography, Cameras, Arms

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

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  Photography, Book, Order

  Susan Sontag (1978). "Sobre la fotografía", Delta

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• The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall.

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  Photograph, Instant, Maxims

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.22, Macmillan

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• Las ideologías políticas autoritarias tienen un gran interés en promover el miedo, la sensación de inminencia de la toma del poder por los extraterrestres y las enfermedades reales son un material útil.

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  Real, Political, Disease

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors”, p.107, Penguin UK

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• Las armas se han transformado en cámaras en esta comedia seria, el safari ecológico, porque la naturaleza ha dejado de ser lo que siempre había sido: aquello de lo que la gente necesitaba protegerse. Ahora la naturaleza domesticada, en peligro de extinción, mortal, necesita ser protegida de las personas.

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  Nature, Gun, People

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.16, Macmillan

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• Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph is a privileged moment turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again.

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  Moving, Memorable, Looks

  Susan Sontag (2014). “On Photography”, p.17, Penguin UK

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• The destiny of photography has taken it far beyond the role to which it was originally thought to be limited: to give more accurate reports on reality (including works of art). Photography is the reality; the real object is often experienced as a letdown.

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  Fotografía, Arte, Real

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.129, Macmillan

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• La fotografía es un arte elegíaco, un arte crepuscular. La mayoría de los temas fotografiados están, por el mero hecho de ser fotografiados, tocados por el patetismo.

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  Photography, Art, Twilight

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.16, Macmillan

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• A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.

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  Photography, Real, Painting

  New York Review of Books 23 June 1977

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• One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this economic system, which has bestowed these unprecedented liberties, most cherished in the form of physical mobility and material prosperity, depends on encouraging people to defy limits.

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  People, Society, Liberty

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors”, p.117, Penguin UK

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