One can never ask anyone to change a feeling. ✨ Susan Sontag (2012). A…

Susan Sontag
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling. ✨ Susan Sontag (2012). As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980, p.27, Macmillan
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So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful. ✨ Susan Sontag (2011). On Photography, p.76, Macm … ▶
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling. ✨ Susan Sontag (2012). As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980, p.27, Macmillan

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