The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Quote by Susan Sontag

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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book....

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book....

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...

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been...

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been...

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to...

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to...

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...

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen...

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen...

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

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...

To photograph is to confer importance.

To photograph is to confer importance.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux...

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux...

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 painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than...

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than...

It is not the position, but the disposition.

It is not the position, but the disposition.

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can...

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can...

I am beautiful, famous and gorgeous.

I am beautiful, famous and gorgeous.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty...

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty...