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
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What we need is to use what we have.
Susan Sontag
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
Susan Sontag
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
Susan Sontag
It is not the position, but the disposition.
Susan Sontag
Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
Susan Sontag
Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
Susan Sontag
The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.
Susan Sontag
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Affront,
Anything,
Cannot,
Controlled,
Death,
Denied,
Else,
Live,
Mystery,
Natural,
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Obscene,
Only,
Religious,
Sense,
Thing,
Those,
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