All Susan Sontag Quotes
Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.
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It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
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A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
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The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
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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.
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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.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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"Camp" is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.
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Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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