"The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities." ― Susan Sontag Topic(s): History More From Susan Sontag "Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art." "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." "Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs." More In History "I was always anti-marriage. I didn’t understand monogamy. I couldn’t figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started to understand the beauty of constancy and history and change and going on the roller coaster with someone – of having a partner in life."― Maria Bello "The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality."― Jon Meacham "Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that’s been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have."― Michael Haneke