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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.
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A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
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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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A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of ''spirit'' over matter.
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AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.
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AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.
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Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
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Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
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Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
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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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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.
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As you begin to understand the immense power and love you hold inside, you will find an unending surge of joy, light and love that will nourish and support you all the days of your life.
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Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.
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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
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Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular kind of style. It is love of the exaggerated.
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Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.
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Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.
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Do you really have to be the ice queen intellectual or the slut whore? Isn't there some way to be both?
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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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