"With the daguerreotype everyone will be able to have their portrait taken-formerly it was only the prominent-and at the same time everything is being done to make us all look exactly the same, so we shall only need one portrait."

Modernity, Technology, Identity, Progress, Irony

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"Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Modernity, Danger, Growth, Change, Time

"To return to antiquity [in literature]: that has been done. To return to the Middle Ages: that too has been done. Remains the present day. But the ground is shaky: so where can you set the foundations? An answer to this question must be found if one is to produce anything vital and hence lasting. All this disturbs me so much that I no longer like to be spoken to about it."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"A selfie has more face and fewer feelings."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"These days we have Smartphones, Smartcars, Smartboards, Smarteverything, but consider this: if technology is getting smarter, does that mean humans are getting dumber?"

Rebecca McNutt, Canadian Author

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"He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on? Harry Blakemoor died with his tie on. I like it, Larry."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Widespread commercial distribution of ice was so new that 300 tons of the precious commodity melted at one port while customs officials tried to figure out how to classify it."

Bill Bryson, American Writer

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"We can no longer create the feeling of an era...of time being particular to one spot in time."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

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"You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition."

Theodore Bikel, Austrian Actor

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"The thinness of contemporary life. I can poke my finger through it."

Don DeLillo, American Novelist

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"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."

Thought

"Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own."

Truth

"Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further."

Faith

"I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this."

Man

"Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood."

Time

"There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death."

Death

"Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself."

Love

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