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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention t

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. – 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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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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To take a photograph is to participate in another persons mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to times relentless melt. – Susan Sontag

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Time
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Other Quotes from
Mental Illness
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There is no such condition as schizophrenia, but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. – R. D. Laing

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Mental Illness

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist. – Sigmund Freud

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Mental Illness

A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made. – Luis Bunuel

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Mental Illness

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young. – Sigmund Freud

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Mental Illness

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I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that Im a mom. Now Im an adult! It only took 38 years! – Ana Ortiz

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You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine. – Cory Booker

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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. – Ambrose Bierce

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