The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

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

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Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

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Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

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Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

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What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

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

Susan Sontag in Against Interpretation (1966)
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A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

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

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In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

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