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

Other quotes by Susan Sontag

Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life — its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness — conjoin to dull our sensory faculties. – Susan Sontag

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Excess
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Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene — in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses. – Susan Sontag

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Cancer
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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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When you say things like, We have to wipe out the Taliban, what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway. – Arundhati Roy

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History

Knowledge of history frees us to be contemporary. – Lynn White, Jr.

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History

Throughout this countrys history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass. – Eric Liu

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History
[W]hen a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian. – Shailer Mathews, The Spiritual Interpretation of History

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History

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The tiny madman in his padded cell. – Vladimir Nabokov

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In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons. – Marie Curie

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If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive. – American Quaker Saying

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I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I. – Doris Lessing

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