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Depression is melancholy minus its charms -- the animation, the fi

Depression is melancholy minus its charms — the animation, the fits. – Susan Sontag

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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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Exaggeration
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Susan Sontag
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A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of spirit over matter. – Susan Sontag

Category:
Psychology
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Susan Sontag
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The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects – making it possible… to see a new beauty in what is vanishing. – Susan Sontag

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Beauty
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Other Quotes from
Depression
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The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape. – Leonard Cohen

Category:
Depression

In depression…faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no rememdy will come, not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute. It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul. – William Styron

Category:
Depression

The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it. – Cesare Pavese

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Depression

Human existence must be a kind of error…it may be said of it, it is bad today and every day it will get worse, until the worst of all happens. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Depression

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These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty they are in showbiz, and showing what theyve got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney. – Julie Burchill

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Beauty

Will cannot be quenched against its will. – Dante Alighieri

Category:
Will, Willpower

I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. Theyre always misunderstood, but theyre the ones who are standing up for human rights. – Richard Hatch

Category:
Courage

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Reform, Correction