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" The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. "
Susan Sontag
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" Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. "
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" It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones. "
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" The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. "
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" Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it. "
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