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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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Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. – Susan Sontag

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Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style — but a particular kind of style. It is love of the exaggerated. – Susan Sontag

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Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come. – Michelangelo

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It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness. – Thornton Wilder

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Wit is more necessary than beauty and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it. – William Wycherley

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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. – Godfrey Harold Hardy

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There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasnt back in the days when they did Cleopatra, where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave. – John Milius

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