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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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Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. – Susan Sontag

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Science
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Volume depends precisely on the writers having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. – Susan Sontag

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alone
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Depression is anger without enthusiasm – Anon.

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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

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He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan. – Alain de Botton

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Depression

In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no wonder, then, that I return the love. – Soren Kierkegaard

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