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Susan Sontag

"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."

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"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."

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Amber Hurdle

"Then, were not summer's distillation leftA liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft,Nor it nor no remembrance what it was.But flowers distilled, though they with winter meet,Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet."

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Amber Hurdle

"Be beautiful and you are doing your part to create a more beautiful world."

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Amber Hurdle

"Silent as a flower, her face fell in dismay, aware that the ghost of lust ate and left, sensing that there was a different scent of perfume consuming the room, and that she had numbered and counted the he loves me, he loves me not of each petal, where the lifeless dust had settle."

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Amber Hurdle

"Explore the wonders of different shades of colours. It is purely lovely."

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Amber Hurdle

"Your love for beauty has been perverted, repressed and savaged by hateful and controlling elements in the world."

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Amber Hurdle

"What is your substance, whereof are you made,That millions of strange shadows on you tend?Since everyone hath every one, one shade,And you, but one, can every shadow lend.Describe Adonis, and the counterfeitIs poorly imitated after you.On Helen's cheek all art of beauty set,And you in Grecian tires are painted new.Speak of the spring and foison of the year;The one doth shadow of your beauty show,The other as your bounty doth appear,And you in every blessA d shape we know.In all external grace you have some part,But you like none, none you, for constant heart."

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Amber Hurdle

"Age cannot wither her nor custom stale Her infinite variety."

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Amber Hurdle

"If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when you love the person taking the picture."

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Amber Hurdle

"Beneath your burdensome regrets and who you think you are through the lens of past mistakes, there is someone beautiful who wants to emerge."

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Amber Hurdle

"World will be a beautiful place only with beautiful minds!"

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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."
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"Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims."
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"Lying is an elementary means of self-defense."
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"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art."
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"My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything."
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"As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure."
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"Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics."
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"The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities."
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"It is a view of suffering, of the pain of others, that is rooted in religious thinking, which links pain to sacrifice, sacrifice to exaltation - a view that could not be more alien to a modern sensibility, which regards suffering as something that is a mistake or an accident or a crime. Something to be fixed. Something to be refused. Something that makes one feel powerless."
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"To take a picture is to have an interest in things as they are, in the status quo remaining unchanged, to be in complicity with whatever makes a subject interesting, worth photographing-including, when that is the interest, another person's pain or misfortune."
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