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The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.
Susan Sontag
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The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
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The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
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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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Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
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"Camp" is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.
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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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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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Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.
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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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