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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Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony. – Susan Sontag

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Minorities
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. – Susan Sontag

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Truth
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[History is a] mixture of error and violence. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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History

The writing of histories – as Goethe once noted – is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past…. The writing of history liberates us from history. – Benedetto Croce, History as the Story of Liberty

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History

History is the essence of innumerable biographies. – Thomas Carlyle, On History

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History

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. – Johan Huizinga

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History

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From the minute I wake up until I go to bed I think about food. – Helena Christensen

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Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life. – Heraclitus

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[Poker] exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great. – Walter Matthau

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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. – Edmond de Goncourt

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