Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
From Susan Sontag
In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
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.
The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
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