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Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style -- but a particula

Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style — but a particular kind of style. It is love of the exaggerated. – Susan Sontag

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Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. – Susan Sontag

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Hurt, Injury
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Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life — its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness — conjoin to dull our sensory faculties. – Susan Sontag

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To exaggerate is to weaken. – Jean François de La Harpe, Melanie, 1770

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An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper. – Khalil Gibran

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To a small man every greater is an exaggeration. – Henry David Thoreau

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It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead. – Mark Twain

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