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The possession of a camera can...

The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

Nobody ever discovered uglines...

Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

To collect photographs is to c...

To collect photographs is to collect the world.

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A photograph comes into being,...

A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once.

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The highest vocation of photog...

The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

In the twentieth century, the ...

In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of 'spiritual' feelings and 'critical' discontent, is insanity.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

The problems of this world are...

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

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

It hurts to love. It's like gi...

It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.

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My library is an archive of lo...

My library is an archive of longings.

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The culture-heroes of our libe...

The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . .

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I'm only interested in people ...

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

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One criticizes in others what ...

One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another's ambitiousness.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

Translation is the circulatory...

Translation is the circulatory system of the world's literatures

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The best emotions to write out...

The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

With the modern diseases (once...

With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease -- because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses.

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Jews and homosexuals are the o...

Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

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Al forms of consensus about ''...

Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life of the mind is always at the frontiers of ''what is already known.'' Those great books don't only need custodians and transmitters. To stay alive, they also need adversaries. The most interesting ideas are heresies.

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Interpretation, based on the h...

Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art. It makes art into an article for use, for arrangement into a mental scheme of categories.

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The felt unreliability of huma...

The felt unreliability of human experience brought about by the inhuman acceleration of historical change has led every sensitive modern mind to the recording of some kind of nausea, of intellectual vertigo.

Susan Sontag 557 quotes

In a culture whose already cla...

In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....