| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 54658 |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Susan Sontag (b. 1933), U.S. essayist. “Melancholy Objects,” On Photography (1977). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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