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Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
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War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view ''realistically;'' that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent - war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.
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We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.
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We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.
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What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.
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With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease - because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses.
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