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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; wh

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. – Susan Sontag

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Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene — in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses. – Susan Sontag

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Cancer
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Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life — its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness — conjoin to dull our sensory faculties. – Susan Sontag

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It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out. – Alexander Pope

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What we know of other peoples only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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Always remember, there are two types of people in this world. Those who come into a room and say, Well, here I am! and those who come in and say, Ah, there you are! – Frederick L. Collins

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No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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You’re only as sick as your secrets. – Author Unknown

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