The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

Quote by Susan Sontag

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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to...

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to...

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of...

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of...

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to...

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to...

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to...

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to...

To photograph is to confer importance.

To photograph is to confer importance.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by...

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by...

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen...

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen...

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that...

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that...

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux...

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux...

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every...

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every...

What we need is to use what we have.

What we need is to use what we have.

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro....

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro....

The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man...

The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man...

Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the...

Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the...

Huddled in dirt the reasoning engine lies who was so proud, so witty, so wise.

Huddled in dirt the reasoning engine lies who was so proud, so witty, so wise.