The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. -Susan Sontag Truth
I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future. -Susan Sontag Equality
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. -Susan Sontag Women
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. -Susan Sontag Future
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. -Susan Sontag Truth
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. -Susan Sontag Beauty
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. -Susan Sontag Men
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 Death
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. -Susan Sontag Famous
Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. -Susan Sontag Society
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. -Susan Sontag Space
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. -Susan Sontag Failure
