Quote by Susan Sontag
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has

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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A familys photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it. – Susan Sontag

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Family
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I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams. – Susan Sontag

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Dreams
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For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. – Susan Sontag

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A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but shell appear in film and it wont work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I dont know. – Oliver Stone

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Beauty

Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true. – Delta Burke

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Beauty

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Beauty

We also maintain – again with perfect truth – that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination. – Richard Le Gallienne

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Beauty

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The people of Liberia know what it means to be deprived of clean water, but we also know what it means to see our children to begin to smile again with a restoration of hope and faith in the future. – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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Accurst be he that first invented war. – Christopher Marlowe

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