Quote by Susan Sontag
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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I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future. – Susan Sontag

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Equality
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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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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. – Susan Sontag

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History
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Depression
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Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on thin air, growing despite its detachment from the nourishing earth. It can be described only in metaphor and allegory – Andrew Solomon

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Depression

Depression is anger without enthusiasm – Anon.

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Depression

The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop. – Eric Hoffer

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Depression

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. – John Keats

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Depression

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