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My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

- Susan Sontag | Art and the Artist Quotes

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

- Susan Sontag | Men and Women Quotes

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.

- Susan Sontag | Photography Quotes

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

- Susan Sontag | Photography Quotes

Life is not about significant details, illuminated in a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

- Susan Sontag | Photography Quotes

Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

- Susan Sontag | Greed Quotes

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

- Susan Sontag | Acceptance Quotes

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

- Susan Sontag | Self-Knowledge Quotes

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

- Susan Sontag | Self-Acceptance Quotes

It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe-though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.

- Susan Sontag | The Past Quotes

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

- Susan Sontag | The Present Quotes

Although none of the rules for becoming alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

- Susan Sontag | Positive Quotes

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

- Susan Sontag | Ignorance Quotes