Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

Quote by Susan Sontag

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What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in...

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in...

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a...

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a...

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a...

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a...

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate...

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate...

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.

Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro....

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro....

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every...

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every...

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my...

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my...

The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian...

The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian...

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also...

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also...

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential...

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential...

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of...

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of...

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases...

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases...

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.