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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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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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Death
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AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them. – Susan Sontag

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AIDS
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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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Im flatchested, Im short, Im brunette, I have droopy eyes, and so people have a hard time casting me as a beauty. – Selma Blair

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Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. – Helen Rowland

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Beauty

A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty. – Diane Kruger

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Beauty

Beauty is only skin deep. – Thomas Overbury

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My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams. – Diane Keaton

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We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams… we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake. – Erich Fromm

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Lucy put out her hand as if to ward his words away… – Florence Bone (1875–1971), The Morning of To‑Day, 1907

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When you open your heart to giving, angels fly to your door. – Author Unknown

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