Quote by Susan Sontag
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

Other quotes by Susan Sontag

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

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Psychology
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The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art – and, by analogy, our own experience – more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means. – Susan Sontag

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Experience
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Mental Illness
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The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves. – Marcel Proust

Category:
Mental Illness

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

Much of what is labeled mental illness simply reflects our – George Vaillant

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Mental Illness

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives. – Georges Bataille

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Mental Illness

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What if man were required to educate his children without the help of talking animals. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The birds are molting. If only man could molt also — his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions. – James Allen

Category:
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If you really want to make a friend, go to someones house and eat with him… the people who give you their food give you their heart. – Cesar Chavez

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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it. – Voltaire

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