Quote by Susan Sontag
The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possib

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. – Susan Sontag

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Most people in this society who arent actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. – Susan Sontag

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Society
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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

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Beauty
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Its not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions. – Norman Mailer

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History

When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious. – Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

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History

Theres something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things. – Tim Burton

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History

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion. – Barbara Tuchman

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History

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Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year — and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority. – W.J. Cameron

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The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead. – Carl Gustav Jung

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Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life. – Chris Rock

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A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant. – Ivor Novello

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