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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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Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony. – Susan Sontag

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Minorities
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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

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Mental Illness

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. – 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

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Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream – they go together. – Nikki Giovanni

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The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak. – Jacques BeNigne Bossuet

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Love is not consolation. It is light. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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I think the biggest difficulty is that when Im here in America, theres a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning. – Chiaki Kuriyama

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