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To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt. - Susan Sontag

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American writer

Born:28th January, 1933
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Starsign: Aquarius

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