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With time, many staged photographs turn back into historical evidence, albeit of an impure kind - like most historical evidence.

With time, many staged photographs turn back into historical evidence, albeit of an impure kind – like most historical evidence.
– Susan Sontag

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  1. The Soul has never become impure not even for a second and if it had become impure then no one in this world would have been able to purify it. – Dada Bhagwan
  2. Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed. – Susan Sontag
  3. High Maintenance; I don’t like to live in place that snows a lot, albeit I’d love to visit one. I won’t marry a super model, albeit date one. – Yatin Patel
  4. Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art. – Susan Sontag
  5. Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us. – Susan Sontag
  6. Photographs that depict suffering shouldn’t be beautiful, as captions shouldn’t moralize. – Susan Sontag
  7. Facts do not become historical evidence until someone thinks up something for them to prove or disprove. – Cary Carson
  8. That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. – Christopher Hitchens
  9. Faith is evidence unseen and never seen, trust is gained from evidence seen and understood. – Gary J Spaulding
  10. The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence – Mantra
  11. There is no evidence to suggest that God helps people. There is, however, ample evidence that people can help themselves and each other. – Armin Navabi
  12. Interfering in the worldly life is impure action (ashuddha vyavahar). – Dada Bhagwan
  13. There is only supreme bliss in the Soul, our True Self. But this bliss is obstructed because of impure inner intents. – Dada Bhagwan
  14. Sexual immorality is an impure act. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  15. I set up and staged hundreds of ends-of-the-world and watched, enthralled, as they played themselves out. – Annie Dillard
  16. The world is a drama, staged in a dream – Guru Nanak
  17. Life has been fair, destiny may have staged it well but the timings were terrible. – Parul Wadhwa
  18. In a civilization when love is gone we turn to justice and when justice is gone we turn to power and when power is gone we turn to violence. – Kare Anderson
  19. My library is an archive of longings. – Susan Sontag
  20. It is intolerable to have one’s sufferings twinned with anybody else’s. – Susan Sontag
  21. Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. – Susan Sontag
  22. The memory of war, however, like all memory, is mostly local. – Susan Sontag
  23. I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces -˜intelligence. – Susan Sontag
  24. To the militant, identity is everything. – Susan Sontag
  25. Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. – Susan Sontag
  26. The only interesting ideas are heresies – Susan Sontag
  27. One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life. – Susan Sontag
  28. Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world. – Susan Sontag
  29. Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex. – Susan Sontag
  30. With genius, as with beauty — all, well almost all, is forgiven. – Susan Sontag
  31. It’s not love that the past needs in order to survive, it’s an absence of choices. – Susan Sontag
  32. How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion! – Susan Sontag
  33. A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the w – Susan Sontag
  34. But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else. – Susan Sontag
  35. If one could amputate part of one’s consciousness… – Susan Sontag
  36. Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. – Susan Sontag
  37. To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time. – Susan Sontag
  38. My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything. – Susan Sontag
  39. I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting. – Susan Sontag
  40. I have always been full of lust – as I am now – but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path. – Susan Sontag

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